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The Russians have a bunch of planes as well, not to mention sophisticated land based air defenses already in Eastern Ukraine. Poland recently ran a bunch of mi
by scottLobster 5y ago
The Russians have a bunch of planes as well, not to mention sophisticated land based air defenses already in Eastern Ukraine.
Poland recently ran a bunch of military exercises simulating a Russian invasion through Belarus, and in the words of one Polish general the results were "worse than 1939"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/09/pola-n09.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/09/pola-n09.html
If NATO declares war on Russia, that also immediately expands the front line from Norway, down into the Baltics, all of which would have to be defended from Russian retaliation. Doing that and fighting a full scale invasion of Ukraine would be the largest European Conflict since WWII.
- skinkestek 5y ago> If NATO declares war on Russia, that also immediately expands the front line from Norway, down into the Baltics, all of which would have to be defended from Russian retaliation. Doing that and fighting a full scale invasion of Ukraine would be the largest European Conflict since WWII. Well, that obviously goes both ways. Russia will also have to defend itself all the way from the north to the south.