If one must fight a conventional ground war against a near-peer opponent, one must make sure they have superior firepower.
The ability to produce and supply millions of artillery rounds and more millions of bombs is the deciding factor.
Or INability. I still have a couple boxes of ammo. 🤔👍
Building a factory for boring old 155mm rounds won’t grease nearly enough palms in Washington.
I think that time, distance, energy, and manufacturing we'll decide to sworn it is in Russia's favor.
The defence industry of Russia is a strategically important sector and a large employer in the country. Russia has a large and sophisticated arms industry, capable of designing and manufacturing high-tech military equipment, including a fifth-generation fighter jet, nuclear powered submarines, firearms, and short range/long range ballistic missiles. It is the world's second-largest exporter of arms, behind only the United States.
It has been widely described as an energy superpower;[31] as it has the world's largest natural gas reserves,[32] the second-largest coal reserves,[33] the eighth-largest oil reserves,[34] and the largest oil shale reserves in Europe.[35] It is the world's leading natural gas exporter,[36] the second-largest natural gas producer,[37] and the second-largest oil exporter,[38] and producer.[39] Russia's foreign exchange reserves are the world's fourth-largest.[40] It has a labour force of roughly 70 million people, which is the world's sixth-largest.[41] Russia is the world's second-largest exporter of arms.[42] Russia also has the world's fifth-largest number of billionaires.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia
“If one must fight a conventional ground war against a near-peer opponent...”
Good thing we don’t have any near-peer opponents capable of forcing us into a conventional ground war then. I dunno though, maybe Mexico or Canada will take advantage of this and start a big military buildup to challenge us.
Such blind Military Industrial dupes. After trillions and a million dead ensuring the Middle East is safe for Raytheon, here we go for trillions more in Act II. Both quagmires had zero strategic interest for America but the Government/Media conglomerate leads these saps around to the point of supporting this lunacy. As I said in March, a generational, multi trillion $ needless CF.