don't know enough about italian armed forces, and i'd be genuinely surprised if they were even remotely as competent as the frenchies or the brits currently, but it might just be history clouding my judgement on this. pretty sure they wouldn't want to mess with the finns either, lol.

anyway, my main point here is that it's largely academic thanks to alliances, and that's a good thing imo.

Jeeze why so angry?

imagine witnessing the heroic defence ukrainians are putting up against an overwhelming military force to preserve their freedom, and still acting like the countless times debunked narrative of an external "coup" by western forces against a country that secretly wants to be ruled by a russian puppet like yanukovych holds any merit. how desperate, how dumb... ampootin just can't stop spreading russian propaganda, lol...

Seems like youre a spread of communism supporter. All R before you roll in their graves and hate your soft cowardice

Poutine fearlessly attacked UA under biden

braindead-biden / Russia collusion = Confirmed !

all braindead biden voters must be jailed for making possible this armed insurrection in Ukraine

Red! Spotted

https://twitter.com/al_bonnel/status/1500113246392659971?t=KR8ii_JAtsCsznIyZW_elg&s=19

dont take it from me, take it from the former president poroshenko on how they wanted to force eastern ukranians into submission after the coup, they ended up killing thousands

must also be a putin propaganda shill i guess

The circumstances were not right previously, but are much more favorable right now. To elaborate:

- Russia's state finances depend heavily on the oil prices, which were rather low from 2014 through 2021.
- The current gigh prices mean Russia has more financial breathing room to conduct a military operation.
- High demand and low supply on the global markets meant he had more leverage.
- A fossil-unfriendly president in the White House also meant that the American fracking industry wouldn't be able to jump in and alleviate the pressure as easily.
- The new US president having a broken or even non-existent relationship with Saudi leadership also meant that there was less of a chance that the Saudis, or OPEC as a whole, would increase production to counteract the soaring commodity prices.
- Two years of sacrifice and an inflation which had already been picking up pace due to the post-pandemic recovery has really disgruntled consumers/voters in the West, increasing the likelihood that they will ultimately not be willing to make further sacrifices for economic sanctions against Russia.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 15 2022 08:11pm

Countries like Poland, Germany, France and such have a much more well-equipped military than Ukraine. Even just on a country vs country basis, I doubt that Russia could successfully invade them. Particularly once we factor in that these places are much further away from Russia than Ukraine, so that the logistics become a real headache. If Russia is barely able to beat a country like Ukraine into submission, and barely able to sustain its supply lines some 100km outside of its own territory, I see no way they could win a (conventional) war in Poland or Germany against cutting edge Western military technology.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 15 2022 08:08pm

Do you have any sources on the Ukrainian army bombing their own people... as in... civilians? Fighting against armed separatists obviously cannot be held against the Ukrainian government.