“Russian are getting better—battle hardened as we are becoming a nation of Metrosexuals. Yeah, we can use computers to fly drones but can we go toe to toe with Russians?”
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Well, the entire world is actually witnessing that Russia is rather weak!
Indeed, mighty Russia was supposed to take over Kiev and the entirety of Ukraine within a couple of weeks, remember?
It was simply unthinkable and truly unimaginable that a few Ukrainians would be able to totally halt the Russian military machine advances.
Actually, Ukrainians managed to take back 53% of the land areas originally stolen by Russia. It’s pretty unbelievable, but true.
Also, Russia’s army seems rather depleted now after 1,5 years of unsuccessful war.
Thus, to see how incapable Russians have been after one and a half years of war, it is truly reassuring for Nato, which is massively more powerful than Ukraine of course. If there is no nuclear war, NATO has now the proof it can very easily defend itself against any attempt by Russia to invade Europe.
Actually, Russia has not taken much more than what they had already taken in 2014 anyway. Basically they still have Crimea (stolen in 2014) and they have simply regrouped back into DONBAS regions which they also took in 2014.
So what have they managed to take in addition to that after 1,5 years of war, 250.000 russians dead soldiers, 4200 lost tanks, a rebellion within Russia...? Well, basically nothing more compared to what they already had taken in 2014!
We have to let THAT sink in for a minute...
Let that sink in....
Stop with the unsolicited pings...I have no interest in your dopey commentary.
Remember their stated SMO goal was not to conquer Kiev and occupy Ukraine, but to protect the rights of the 4 new oblasts to join Russia, to demiltarize the nazis that have been disenfranchising and killing Russian heritage speakers since 2014 and stop ukraine from joining NATO.
They got a long way to go in protecting the new territories but they sure as hell have achieved bloody progress in destroying the Uke military…which exists only on constant transfusions of western aid and equipment, even that starting to lag as western stockpiles are drawn down and Kiev digs ever deeper into its population to replace over 500,00 dead and crippled men ( conservative estimate, the WIA could be hundreds of thousands more);
Uke NATO membership is impossible given the war, and the stoked militarism and hate of fanatical nationalism.
In the long fight, Russia is the heavyweight and Ukraine by the week, is slipping farther out of middleweight status.