The United States, and NATO, could defeat the Russian military, barring their nukes. However, there is no way we could defeat their country. There simply aren’t enough troops in the world to adequately occupy a country that size.
Sorta reminds me of when my brother, a one-time prison guard, told me that we didn't need the electric chair, we needed electric bleachers.
In some ways, it "might" be less inasmuch as there may be a slightly higher concentration of ethnic russians there.
Yeah I cannot think of an even remote analog for us. It would be like us saying we want Canada and Mexico and we start blowing the shit out of them, and everyone in the US is like BFD.
People keep saying NATO would easily defeat the Russians. The truth is the American military, if it is just a conventional battle, would. 19 NATO countries failed to meet their obligations to to spend 2% of their GDP on defense last year (a requirement for NATO membership). It has been a problem for decades as their militaries fell into disrepair, old equipment. and poorly trained troops. They were relying on there never being another war or the US defending them.
My worry is they have a pretty comprehensive "hit list" for the reason you just brought up.
Do you not remember the war in the Middle East? There are a lot of comments about just nuking that area off the map. I’m sure there were plenty of examples on HORT.
I know if I was a Ukrainian there is no way I'm allowing myself to be captured.
without a doubt. personally, I suspect the "hit list" thing is probably slightly exaggerated. Without a doubt, I'm sure they exist, but I suspect "most" of the worst of what we're now seeing is basic civilian revenge killing by a retreating, defeated army.
I think there's probably a lot of intel sharing going on behind the scenes that we're not privy to in regards to US contributions...
Given the invaders came with parade uniforms packed, the 45,000 body bags and mobile crematoriums were surely for those on the hitlists.
Given their actions, they should be thought of more as terrorists than combatants.
Sadly there is a lot of truth here. We will be like Russia if we endure another 30 years of Fox NewsmaxThey pretty much sound just like these guys
Just as brainwashed by an adjacent propaganda machine.
I agree. I just don't like the fact that China/India are basically Russia's fall back....we can hurt Russia and are hurting the Russians but those countries are gonna soften the landing.
Also major talk on the plan to relocate these forces to east / south front has a major problem because the equipment is almost all gone or not working, as are the troops. Going to be a very interesting thing if Putler truly thinks he can capture east and south Ukraine for his land bridge by May 7th, because he may once again blunder into a situation he can't win now that Ukraine is rearming and fighting only two fronts. It is going to be critical that we get them all the weapons and tanks and ship killers we can AND do some sort of no fly or UN Peace Keeping troops in the west 3/4 of Ukraine to keep them from advancing again.
My younger, Republican self, will admit I said that. My entire life has been ME issue after issue.
I’m not going to defend the people that you are taking about. I will call out a difference in situations though.
No. I know it’s hard to accept, but this is another example of Russia screwing up. Never get in the way of your enemy screwing up. We should accelerate weapons deliveries to Ukraine. We should also start training them on more advanced weaponry. The sooner the better.
The polling may be accurate in a tabulation sense, but Russians are likely to provide the answers they think are expected for fear of being accused of disloyalty. The bottom line is to ignore Russian opinion polls.
The thing is, I bet somewhere there is video of this shit, whether on a security camera or a Russian phone.
www.wsj.com
At the end of the day, to make a war crimes case, the reality is that these are in fact questions that are going to have to be confronted and dealt with.
