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Russia is a military state. They have about a million of police and other military forces inside the country. And internal separatist movements are so tiny you

Russia is a military state. They have about a million of police and other military forces inside the country. And internal separatist movements are so tiny you can handle them with 1/1000 of the force they have.

TylerE 4y ago
They also thought they could take Ukraine in about the time it took Hitler to blitz into Poland.
- foverzar 4y ago
  That is an assumption.
  - andrewflnr 4y ago
    It's the hypothesis that ascribes the least idiocy to Russian military command, compared to, say, deliberately wading into a multi-year attritional struggle. As much we may think they're fools, they're probably not that stupid.
    - foverzar 4y ago
      > deliberately wading into a multi-year attritional struggle I don't understand how people expect anything different here. Even the US with all it's superpower fanciness spent years in Iraq and decades in Afghan. I am also skeptical over that whole "my opponent is more stupid than me" attitude. We can already see how people made fools of themselves spelling Russia's haste economic demise, while Russia is expecting an economic growth now according to the World Bank. Idiocy would be setting unrealistic expectations and treating this like a computer game, when a well-fortified Ukrainian army at the Donetsk border (that Zelensky was inspecting a few times in 2021) would somehow de-spawn or vanish in case Russia would hastily take Kyiv.
      - andrewflnr 4y ago
        Actually there's more than just that one way of being an idiot and having unrealistic expectations. Wishful thinking springs eternal, on both sides clearly.
okasaki 4y ago
What does that mean? Is the US a military state?
- zztop44 4y ago
  Yes, quite obviously yes, I would have thought. All imperial states are military states aren’t they?
  - orwin 4y ago
    No to your question, i wouldn't call 19th century GB a military state. But the US is one, i would agree.
  - reddog 4y ago
    Would it surprise to learn that among the worlds nations the US ranks 76th in the number of military personel per capita? North Korea is #1 with 306 military personel per 1000 citizens. The US is 6.3/1000. The US is sandwiched between Namibia (#75) and Belize (#77). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of... Its also #22 in military spending as a percentage of GDP. However the US is #3 in per capita military spending.

TylerE 4y ago

They also thought they could take Ukraine in about the time it took Hitler to blitz into Poland.

foverzar 4y ago
That is an assumption.
- andrewflnr 4y ago
  It's the hypothesis that ascribes the least idiocy to Russian military command, compared to, say, deliberately wading into a multi-year attritional struggle. As much we may think they're fools, they're probably not that stupid.
  - foverzar 4y ago
    > deliberately wading into a multi-year attritional struggle I don't understand how people expect anything different here. Even the US with all it's superpower fanciness spent years in Iraq and decades in Afghan. I am also skeptical over that whole "my opponent is more stupid than me" attitude. We can already see how people made fools of themselves spelling Russia's haste economic demise, while Russia is expecting an economic growth now according to the World Bank. Idiocy would be setting unrealistic expectations and treating this like a computer game, when a well-fortified Ukrainian army at the Donetsk border (that Zelensky was inspecting a few times in 2021) would somehow de-spawn or vanish in case Russia would hastily take Kyiv.
    - andrewflnr 4y ago
      Actually there's more than just that one way of being an idiot and having unrealistic expectations. Wishful thinking springs eternal, on both sides clearly.

okasaki 4y ago

What does that mean? Is the US a military state?

zztop44 4y ago
Yes, quite obviously yes, I would have thought. All imperial states are military states aren’t they?
- orwin 4y ago
  No to your question, i wouldn't call 19th century GB a military state. But the US is one, i would agree.
- reddog 4y ago
  Would it surprise to learn that among the worlds nations the US ranks 76th in the number of military personel per capita? North Korea is #1 with 306 military personel per 1000 citizens. The US is 6.3/1000. The US is sandwiched between Namibia (#75) and Belize (#77). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of... Its also #22 in military spending as a percentage of GDP. However the US is #3 in per capita military spending.