If there is any country that could absorb massive casualties it's China. By population, and by political control, they could absorb egregious casualties.
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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I still won't lose any sleep over this possible scenario (but maybe I should).
How long will “the Ukraine as we currently know it” last if Trump wins
This is second hand from one of my best friends who just "retired" from the Marines... but he makes it sound like they have plenty of weapons/tools to use to destroy/disrupt drones in the field
Yes, but they cannot absorb a full loss of Western markets for all their stuff in any all-out war.
Their economy dissolves if the West isn't buying all the NYs/Valentine's/St Patrick's Day/4th of July/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas shit.
If this is a "Red Line" for the US and NATO, what is our response, now?
Might be time to formally declare Crimea as Ukraine and use some NATO assets to take out the bridge and Putin's palace.
Then deny any involvement.
I wish SOMETHING would be a red line for the West!
Making sure they are not just really dead but really most sincerely dead. (Wizard of Oz)
"46th Airmobile Brigade.Five BMPs and two tanks formed a morning shock fist towards the defense of one of the airmobile battalions of our brigade"
First time I have noticed the casualties numbers going down from previous days number. Nov 2 it was over 697k Nov 3 it’s 696k.
I didn’t notice. Maybe they are trying to be accurate and adjusted down after learning new data. Or maybe it is a typo. No idea. I just post the numbers out of habit, and for awhile have been skeptical of the body count. I understood it to go from kills only of Russian soldiers, to kills of Russian forces including mercenaries/wagner, to casualties including deaths and serious injuries. I also understood those to be estimates based on equipment/buildings destroyed, and not on actually bodies counted. I think the equipment count is accurate though.
The aircraft numbers haven’t changed in a long while. 369 does have a nice ring to it, tho.
Twilight Zone - the UK MOD intelligence for today was the same they had posted for Nov 1st.
"(1) 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.They build and blow up – to protect their own country and destroy the enemy! "
Even the large infantry forces of the US found itself short of riflemen during the Normandy campaign. Troops being trained for other jobs found themselves being given a rifle and sent as replacements. Though much of this is blamed on trying to use their civilian jobs as a template for their military ones and thus not creating enough riflemen.
