Russia won’t need nuclear weapons. It is systematically destroying the Ukrainian and mercenary forces and equipment with its overwhelming use of conventional weapons.
Sending a limited number of a hodge-podge of tanks and vehicles to Ukraine, with no universal ammunition sizes, operation standards, repair standards and a plethora of differing repair parts needed to maintain them is just sending them to the wrecking yard.
Those tanks and vehicles not destroyed outright would have to be transported huge distances back to Poland for repairs by expert mechanics relocated to Poland from countries that built them.
These weapons are not just “big rolling guns that go Boom.” They have complex and non-standard electrical and computerized components and guidance systems that require months of training of crews for them to reliably operate and repair.
Truckloads of ammunition sent for use on some models of tanks won’t fit into the barrels of other differing models.
This entire desperate effort is so fraught with stupidity as to be the obvious work of idiots. It is a logistical nightmare that cannot work.
All the Ukraine cheerleading won’t defeat Russia. Ukraine is losing big-time. This is all just desperation of the West as NATO crumbles and proves its impotence.
The U.S. flatly refuses to send its Abrams tanks to Ukraine because American generals know what Russia will QUICKLY do to those ridiculously expensive tanks.
American weapons systems are massively expensive and cannot be replicated in big numbers without YEARS of manufacture.
The war in Ukraine is one of world history’s most absurd and senseless efforts.
How will Europe defend itself when all of its paltry weapons productions are destroyed to try to save a thoroughly corrupt dictatorship in an irrelevant nation?
Western Europe is committing economic suicide to what end?
The US gets to sit back unscathed and China isn’t hurt directly by this but it’s next on the bad nation list already getting the bad publicity Russia got in the last decade or so before the fighting started.
Bump
This conflict is designed to bleed the Western countries of weapons they cannot easily and quickly afford to replace by wasting them in Ukraine
China and whoever else wants to start a regional conflict while Western nations grind their military stores to dust is the big winner here
As such, this is very destabilizing to peaceful coexistence
In 10 months Russia has lost 25% of what the US lost in WWII. They’ve lost them for marginal land gains, and massive economic damage.
If you “normalize” the losses based on population, it’s closer to 50%.
Tell me how Long Russian can sustain such losses, and then occupy a country the size of Ukraine.
If you honestly believe that is Russia’s plan, you are kidding yourself.
Putin is going to end up with a lot of dead young men, a ruined economy, and—at best—an occupation force that will be constantly attacked from within.
Good luck with your “victory.”