[Dick Vomer]

after 250 years of deportations, executions and betrayals the Poles would tear them to pieces, literally.

The Russians aren’t known for tactical superiority but NUMERICAL superiority. That’s the way they’ve fought in the past, sometimes with a gun to the backs of the heads of their own soldiers . Something is percolating and I’m just waiting for the Chinese to pipe up now. The Chinese did just open a India-China zone with negotiations about borders yesterday...... Obama is so out of his environment with REAL leaders.

[pierrem15]

They don't have that kind of numerical superiority anymore: I doubt they could even mobilize reserves very quickly: the Russian Army has several hundred thousand men on paper-- How many are in Central Asia or the Far East? How many even lack any significant transport?

The Polish army alone (when mobilized) would be larger that the whole Russian southern military district.

[pierrem15]

I also strongly suspect that a real shooting war would see large scale desertions from the Russian army: the Russian people aren’t idiots and they bitterly recall how Stalin squandered the lives of his soldiers in WWII— Putin doesn’t have the instruments of repression available to him for that kind of massive coercion, and this isn’t a fight for Russia’s national existence against an enemy infamous for killing captured soldiers.