Good points. But to invade Alaska Russia needs to get the forces there. They have a lot of airborne troops. But no way to move armored units across the seas. Russia is a land power. This would require Sea Power. In this the US has no equals. Much is made of China’s large number of vessels. Its mostly coastal vessels. Only the US has serious force projection. Though RATs are working hard to demoralize and destroy its effectiveness.
Of course with nukes its all academic.
Obviously not now they don’t. But, if they reunite most of “greater Russia” . Learn from their hard lessons who knows where they could be 50 years from now. It is much better and much safer for Russia to be defeated and diffused. Put Russia and all of the troubles we have endured with it out of business and make it over and the whole world will be much better with them gone.
“Of course with nukes its all academic.”
Hopefully it won’t reach that stage, theirs and ours. That’s an end stage that doesn’t accomplish anything. All they are looking for is a standoff. Their problem has always been security and it’s how they have designed their military since before Napoleon.
And they also know they don’t have much to gain in Alaska. About the only real “worth” in Alaska is petroleum and they are already big suppliers in oil and natural gas to many countries to include the US. The type of war they want is to demoralize their enemies so they won’t want to fight and they will make concessions. War is not pretty and they are nasty about how they fight it.
I see the use of other than bang bang. They’re new friends to their south, China, is one of the biggest supplier of another means of destruction, bio and chem capacity. And they’ve proven they’ll use it. And that doesn’t flatten possible resources they might be able to use. That’s what they are doing in the Ukraine using pinpoint strikes rather than just tossing in destruction that will make their gains worthless. They easily have enough fire power to wipe out the Ukraine. But if they do that they can’t use what would be left over. Alaska to them would be about the same situation. And it would be a pain in the keyster for them to try. But Boris is too egotistical to consider that. Biden, too.
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