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To: delta7; Waverunner; Red6
Senior retired U.S. military officers I talked to yesterday at Ft Moore’s live fire event really opened my eyes….Germany’s usable tank force is numbered in the tens and twenties, Englands “ army “ is lucky to be able to deploy 6,000 front line ( combat arms, at best,) France’s condition was met by laughter…..surprisingly enough, they all mentioned Polands Army is the ONLY combat ready force available, unfortunately, it was mentioned MAYBE a dozen frontline combat arms brigades, maybe.

And all these formations rely on the West's "air superiority" doctrine...

25 posted on 04/27/2024 5:13:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: kiryandil

Personally, I’m waiting for Venezuela to grab Guyana’s oil fields. It’ll be a new revenue stream for the Bidens, Schumers, Pelosis, and McConnells of the world. Meanwhile our grocery costs have doubled. Soon they’ll decide that we should just replace all the Abrams with Bookers, and electric Bookers at that. The people that had to live through a world war are almost gone. Unfortunately it’s our children or grandchildren who will reap the results of our governments idiocy. And it’s Fort Benning, goll damn it.


31 posted on 04/27/2024 11:56:28 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: kiryandil

No one actually believes in the big bad Russian scare we’re trying so hard to sell. The Euros don’t want to waste their money chasing a Cold War phantom conjured up by our IC and media they know is BS. That’s why after 2 1/2 years some nations in NATO (((still))) are not even meeting their pathetically small 2% GDP defense minimum.

In fact, Russia is a “has been” power we have been antagonizing for years because they are frankly, weak. Russia, 1/2 our military personnel, 1/10 the budget, less high tech, less industry, 40% the men reaching military age, 44% our population, less allies, weaker allies... We try to inflate them into this military giant but the numbers do not match our rhetoric.

We have been kicking the Russians around in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, withdrew from the ballistic missile treaty unilaterally, lied about NATO East expansion and then lied about lying, routinely try to violate Montreux, ignored Minsk and then want to pretend like the Russians are the aggressor and on a world conquest while we engage in 251 various military operations around the world just since 1991.

But that said, we have a problem in Asia that is slowly becoming real. Most of our NATO allies won’t be there for us on that one. However, Korea, a real and combat ready force - more capable than all of the bigger Euro militaries will be part of that conflict. As will be Japan which is beginning to build a real military after being asleep since WWII. Finally there is Australia which has a small but very good military. Those will be the allies on our side.

https://youtu.be/agg07M0Kgrw?si=iWgveIS-OEPpebgA. The ROK military will put what you have in (((any))) Euro nation to shame. They are better equipped, better trained, far bigger (more than UK and France combined), and they have their head screwed on tight (they are a military that knows what their purpose is).

https://youtu.be/q9NPZGtvMH4?si=3wvqSrYqdRFnroyW. (Japan is creeping back onto the world stage with its military).

Your attention is in the wrong place.


34 posted on 04/28/2024 11:07:26 AM PDT by Red6
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