Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 19 2022 12:05pm)
cry all you want about sanctions, we could have just as easily marched into the country, bombed the ever living fuck out of it, killed all of the leaders, failed at making a new govt, then left 10 years later with half of the country still without power or clean water. that's what we did elsewhere in the middle east, iran should count itself lucky.
No, you couldn't do that. Go google "Millennium Challenge 2002".
Quote (Lvivz @ Oct 19 2022 12:11pm)
All of civilized world is on Ukraines side
Indeed, everyone in "the garden", so to speak.
Quote (Lvivz @ Oct 19 2022 12:11pm)
That's what countries think about the referendums when asked. And just two of those abstentions alone are more population than everyone in the EU and North America times 3.
Quote (ferdia @ Oct 19 2022 12:19pm)
The US has been active for decades now, and elements of its armed forces have a degree of experience far in excess of other countries. a bit like how Ukraine and Russia by the end of all this will have armed forces with a degree of experience well above what they had before going into this.
The US has decades of experience fighting against enemies with much inferior weaponry, much weaker economies and oftentimes without anything that can really be called "an army".
The US has exactly as much experience fighting an army like China's or Russia's as anyone else - zero.
This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Oct 19 2022 02:49pm