Quote (MadMan87 @ Nov 22 2024 07:01am)
Hopefully they won’t supply Ukraine any more but Russia’s technological advancements are for not if their soldiers can’t functionally operate them in a combat situation.
That’s the major advantage the west has. Hardened military with both conventional and non conventional warfare experience. The next world war ends one of two ways.
1. Complete destruction via nukes.
2. The West absolutely embarrassing China, Russia, NK and Iran.
Mark my words the very first thing the west does is stretch Russia and China so they can’t help Iran or NK while they cut the head off those two snakes sending them into a 20 year Afghanistan/Iraq style chaotic spiral.
After that China and Russia will have way too many fronts to deal with. That’s the problem being a large country directly land connected to people that despise you.
There will be a lot of loss on both sides but the west will simply be more brutal and care less about their actions.
The 'superior' Western Host has tried not once but two times already to invade Russia and failed spectacularly both times.
Napoleon's host was the finest army the world had ever seen - he had asserted control over all of Europe, had superior technology and military doctrine, had absorbed troops from the European nations, and so invading those backwards Russkies would be easy right? Well, no.. the entire army was destroyed.
Hitler's host was the most technologically advanced, largest host again that the world had ever seen. Superior tanks, weaponry, military doctrine, air power. He had conquered Europe and absorbed troops from the European nations to bolster the host. He thought invading those dirty old inferior Russkies would be easy.. turned out, his whole army was also destroyed there.
What's the common denominator here? Hubris. The same hubris held by western Europeans today. They need to stop smelling their own farts and acknowledge reality. Russia is a really big, cold country filled with hardened & highly intelligent men, where crushing invading Western armies is part of their national identity. Many times the West has foolishly underestimated Russia and many times they've been destroyed. Two entire generations of the finest Germanic men nearly completely wiped out due to unhinged anti-Russian bloodlust by pampered elites. Awesome deal we got there.
Russia has committed a meager fraction of its military power to this conflict. They could squash Ukraine like a bug with conventional missiles anytime they want - they won't do that because they aren't trying to escalate - the West is. It's all so tiresome