Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4170366/posts
Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“Russian tank losses in Ukraine by platform:
T-55: 1
T-62: 80
T-64: 60
T-72: 1125
T-80: 569
T-90: 69
unknown: 264
https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1683951941557141504
The real strategic winner is China. It is now obvious that Russia cannot conventionally defend its rich Asian Pacific territories or Siberia. One day the US, Japan and post Putin Russia will form an alliance to prevent Chinese hegemony. Those lands and their wealth sorely tempt China.
“A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.”
It has really impacted our economy, but Russia has been taken down a few notches and will not be reviving the USSR empire any time soon.
Next is China v Taiwan. That will be messy.
It will be a naval war