The Soviets used to show movies about traffic jams in America to show how bad life was there. Instead of getting that message, the people wondered who owned all those cars.
So the message Im getting from all these stories of how Ukraine stopped the inept Russian army with some anti-tank missiles and molotov cocktails is....Why do we need to spend so much on NATO? Why do 100,000 American troops need to be in Europe? Lets put them on the Mexican border and let Germany, the UK, and France worry (spend their money) about defending Europe.
If Ukraine can stop them this easily, you mean to tell me the combined military might of the UK, Germany, France, Poland, and others can’t do the same if not better?
So which is it? Is Russia and its thousands of tanks and missiles really a threat to roll into Germany thus requiring the US to fund NATO? Or is it an inept army that does not have the gas or experience to take a city 140 miles away.
“...The Soviets used to show movies about traffic jams in America to show how bad life was...”
I knew a young Russian Jew, an engineer and his young non-Jewish wife who had migrated to the US about 40 years ago. The wife was from a small village and when they learned she was going to live in the US, the village was afraid and fearful for her as all they knew of America were movies depicting murder, rape and violence.
Bingo - we’ve been drawn to the fleecing for decades with this ‘invincible communist threat’ garbage.
What’s the latest been? “HYPERSONIC THREAT!” Their weapons research/special effects department manage to run a couple of missile tests, and all of a sudden Lockheed/Boeing/Northrup get huge contracts.
The most competent aspect of Russian arms is the ability to present a Potemkin threat to politicos and generallisimos that are more than willing to accept the fraud in order to cash in on contracts and kickbacks and sweet post-retirement board seats.