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> They're the tip of a spear with a rotting shaft. "Kick the door in..." Russia seems to have learned their lesson from multiple failures in the past. Their m
by rangibaby 10y ago
> They're the tip of a spear with a rotting shaft.
"Kick the door in..."
Russia seems to have learned their lesson from multiple failures in the past. Their mission in Syria was short and successful (e.g. more like Iraq 1991 than Iraq 2003).
The only time the USSR could have had a chance to conquer the west was in the immediate aftermath of WWII, and Stalin was not interested in starting WWIII.
Scared people will do what they are told. That's why we have nonsense like the TSA now.
- mythrwy 10y agoAgreed. Russia appears to have learned a thing or two. The collapse of the Soviet Union was in some ways an opportunity as it allowed rotting bureaucratic systems to be replaced with more effective ones. It's not like all the expertise and technology went away either.