Posted on 11/19/2022 11:18:53 AM PST by vladimir998
“How big is the Russian army?”
it doesn’t matter. I can’t believe I have to explain this to a FReeper - but so many are stupid when it comes to this war.
It doesn’t matter how big Russia’s army is. It ONLY matters how big Russia’s army is INSIDE Ukraine. Thus, Russia’s vast military suddenly means nothing if it is not being committed to fighting in Ukraine. See how simple logic is? And the “big” army they are sending to Ukraine is made up of conscripts with little or no training, bad equipment, no incentive to fight, and extremely poor leadership. Oh, they might win by sheer volume, but that is not really strength - that’s just waste.
“The Russian military is one of the most powerful in the world.”
Yet in 8 full months it has not been able to defeat the poorest and most corrupt country in all of Europe. What does that tell? Do not cop out and say something about Ukrainians getting weapons from the West - of course that matters - but all of Russia’s supposed might should have easily compensated for that little aid that reached Ukraine in the earliest days. Russian commentators were saying it would all be over in a matter of days. We’re 8 months in and there’s no end in sight.
“Russia’s firepower is second only to the United States.”
The United States defeated and occupied Afghanistan more soundly in a few months than Russia did in a decade and the Russians were NEXT DOOR while we were thousands of miles away. Except for nukes the Russians have little real military power.
Yes, I am aware of problems within the USA but I am also able to read and according to what I read this topic was about the Russian military.
And respecting the rules of this forum I kept my remarks within the scope of the topic. I’d suggest you do the same or perhaps post a topic on the various things you’d prefer to discuss and then I’ll be happy to ignore it for you.
jumper on 19th November 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4110440/posts?page=9#9
“The Russia Army is ready to utilize actual combat formations under one command and they are going to take Odessa;....It is going to be long cold winter and by the time the ground thaws the Russians will have dictated a peace with NATO in the absence of sane Ukrainian leadership.”
Jumper is consistently wrong — it’s nearly a year and the Russkies retreated from Kherson, forget about being able to take Odessa
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