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>Simply because if Russia loses men at a rate of 50:1 the US could still find those losses unpalatable The crux of the matter is there are few nations on earth
by ChumpGPT 3y ago
>Simply because if Russia loses men at a rate of 50:1 the US could still find those losses unpalatable
The crux of the matter is there are few nations on earth where life has so little value as Russia. Their leadership has no trouble sending or convincing 10's of millions to go and die. It is my belief Americans and Europeans still don't understand this and if this war was to spill over from Ukraine into Europe it would be a disaster no different than WWII. Yes, USA/Europe/NATO would win but it would cost them millions of lives. Putin has already said if I run out of men I will send Women.
>Frankly I’m confused why we don’t have these things for big static targets like a drone that independently navigates to a rail line, drops a mine and leaves for the train to blow up next time it shows up.
I think the West believed that they could just use their air power to destroy these targets but failed to realize that they have never really fought an enemy that had a serious air defense. Iraq was using systems from the early 70's that were easily defeated.The USA doesn't even have a basic drone like the Iranian Shahed drone that could be produce in mass, they also have no answer to stopping them efficiently.
America can not win a conventional war with China, that is a guarantee. The Chinese could field millions of drones and a endless supply of men and with the support of Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc, would have no problems defeating the US/West. The second Americans couldn't buy a microwave, iPhone, or video card and millions of other things, they would lose their minds and surrender......
- hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago> America can not win a conventional war with China, that is a guarantee. The Chinese could field millions of drones and a endless supply of men and with the support of Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc, would have no problems defeating the US/West. The second Americans couldn't buy a microwave, iPhone, or video card and millions of other things, they would lose their minds and surrender. I'm not sure if it's sarcasm or not but, academic discussion aside, Russia cannot even win the war with Ukraine, so it's hard to imagine how they would fare against a stronger enemy with powerful modern weapons.
- ChumpGPT 3y agoWell the War in Ukraine isn't over and the USA/West doesn't seem to have the will or resolve to help Ukraine win and any help is purely defensive. As the world has seen, Russia has a disregard for life and a willingness to destroy the civilian population without any kind of conscience. They can simply use this same formula on Europe and perhaps that is why the Baltic's who have a large Russian population already, are afraid. Lets not forget what happened with the USA/NATO in Afghanistan where a a stronger force with powerful modern weapons was defeated. Hope I'm full of shit and wrong but I don't have a lot of faith in the USA/West and their resolve and capability when faced with a formidable foe.
- K0balt 3y agoI think it depends on what the public feels is at stake.
- pydry 3y agoRussia is already winning in Ukraine. That's exactly why Biden has been finding it so hard to keep sending weapons - the Republicans would be more or less happy to keep sending them if they were seeing positive results from the counteroffensive but nothing has been achieved. If weapons deliveries wind down from hereon out then Kiev is toast.
- ChumpGPT 3y agoYou're wrong, that last thing that is happening is Russia is winning. Russia has already lost, just remember that conflicts like Afghanistan were one of the factors that that destroyed the USSR and Chechnya basically bankrupted them and caused their economy to collapse. The war in Ukraine will more than likely be the end of Russia and it's break up into different countries and nations. It might take up to a decade but it is coming......