With only a bit more and better hardware and intelligence, Russia will fail. What comes after that
Trump/Zelensky deal turns into Jerry Springer episode
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Zelensky wearing the military type uniform and not a suit isn’t about disrespect. It’s about being in tune with the situation going on in Ukraine. And the nerve if people complaining about him when Musk wears a Tshirt and baseball cap in the oval office.
Re read my post. Czarist Russia fell in February 1917. The US Army arrived in France in May 1918.
Don't try and argue with me about history. You're not smart enough.
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Oh come on, the US had the latest gear and lost to the Taliban. The weapons and tactics being used in this war, represent a sea change in modern warfare. No one imagined how warfare would evolve before our eyes, not even the Russias. Many systems they are using today were in very low rate production as their doctrinal use had not been fully established. Now they are churning it out. Remember the Russian "cope cages" they first put on their tank? Now standard issue for most armored vehicles.
If there isn't, they better create one because there is no point in surrendering land, your natural resources in return for nothing.
They're going to have to move their conscription age even lower....In short they're running out of men to put into this meat grinder.
Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to replenish its beleaguered troops
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed three bills into law aimed at strengthening the country’s beleaguered forces.
apnews.com
Global Security has nothing to do with peace. If Russia wants peace, pull the troops.
No way do I agree with that premise that eastern Europeans wanted to have anyything to do with the Soviet Union. My family comes from a Baltic country. Fled during the Soviet occupation in 1945. No one in the Baltics or Poland wanted to be "aligned" , ruled or brutally opressed by the Soviets. Nor have their homes, farms and property collectivized. Nor be shipped in a cattle car to Siberia for not toeing the Soviet line.
Most Russians who could, fled. the Soviet Union and modern day Russia.
U.S. troops started arriving in 1917. The collapse of Germany is also a very good analogy in this context.
By the way, how did that Russian collapse in World War I end for the Ukraine?
You can fancy yourself a history expert, but you can't predict which side will fold first and what a new Russian regime would look like.
Its evolved into a largely drone war, with Ukraine fielding their own builds and Russia using more Iranian and Chinese drones.
American weapons aren't as useful, other than the long range missiles they never wanted to give them.
Trump let Russian media TASS into the press conference and booted out AP and Reuters.
No offense, but my friends of Baltic, Polish and other Eastern European backgrounds are generally very much in support of continuing to fight Russia.
You are of course entitled to hold that opinion.
Do I have to?
The amount of military hardware that the USA has sent to Ukraine is a tiny fraction of their military spending. And they get real time feedback and experience from the use of the weapons.
But I do agree that the USA has stuck their military where it doesn't belong on false pretences since Vietnam.
I don't understand. Sorry.
I am not sure who is misunderstanding who but I support the continued fight against Russia. Are you saying your friends feel the same? If so, we agree.
If they were willing to go to war, why would the Russians voluntarily give up territory? And what territory should they give up? Back to 2013 borders or 2021 borders? Does that include Crimea?
...while his son tells Trump to shush and go away and that he is not the President.
And then proceeds to rub boogers on the resolute desk. lmfao.
I don't think you understand how US military spending works. In 2025 only 13B was budgeted for equipment for land forces. 61B for air and 48B for navy. So if the USA provided 110B for mostly land equipment. Thats like 8 years!!! the rest of the 820B is OPEX.
I'm saying people of these Eastern Euro backgrounds are more passionate about fighting the war than the average American.
Perhaps I am not tying all my posts together, but I was alluding to the U.S.' containment policy with the Soviet Union. The objective wasn't to seek defeat of the Soviet Union on a battlefield, but rather contain them and make it costly for them to pursue expansion and influence.
Fortunately, the Baltics, Poland, etc. escaped Soviet Russian domination after 45 years.
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So you are saying war is better then peace for security? A peace can have a framework and agreements on military reduction, troop dispositions. verification mechanisms, permanent borders. etc etc.How does this make any sense? How is peace a form of security?
