That is why I think it is insane the amount of people who want NATO to intervene directly against Russia. They think we are fighting the typical rump states and insurgents that the US has been fighting, instead we are fighting a great power that has advanced weaponry, nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles.
These fighters going in bought the baloney that the Russians were incompetent and they thought they were going to play Rambo, saving Ukraine. Instead, they saw with their own eyes what it was like fighting a great power with a massive arsenal, seeing their recently acquainted friends blown to pieces, an arm there, a head there, in the matter of seconds. That probably made this shit all too real and that's why a lot of the foreign legion are tripping over themselves trying to get out knowing that they would be nothing but cannon fodder.
Nobody is suggesting counter-invasion of Russia but Ukraine can be secured if necessary. A2/AD assets can be deployed at the border of Ukraine in Poland and No Fly Zone can be established over Ukranian airspace. NATO is much better armed than Russia in fact.
For perspective, NATO did not allow Russia and its allies to bomb YPG in Syria. This was a red line.
That line was crossed once and Russia was stopped in its tracks:
It was determined to conduct operations that would bring the government forces of Bashar al-Asad to heel at the Battle of Khasham.
www.wearethemighty.com
Interviews and newly obtained documents provide the Pentagon’s first public on-the-ground accounting of one of the bloodiest battles the military has faced in Syria since deploying to fight ISIS.
www.nytimes.com
US Army Brigadier General Jonathan Braga confirms American troops killed hundreds of Russians in one battle and worried it could have escalated.
www.thedrive.com
Joe Biden is old and spent, however. Do not expect much from him in regards to Ukraine.
You should rest easy.
Russia still has plenty of firepower and has a full military industrial supply chain so they can easily make more bombs and missiles if necessary. People here buying into the CNN propaganda are fucking delusional as usual.
Russian
cannot sustain a prolonged war in Ukraine due to its degrading economic situation. Putin administration is seeking desired results in Ukraine at earliest.
Russian forces are doing whatever they can to produce desired results in Ukraine at earliest; Russian forces have used highest count of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles to strike at high value and distant targets across Ukraine, and dispatched over 200,000 troops and irregulars to Ukraine to take as much ground as possible.
Ultimate objective is to take Kyiv by force and execute regime change if possible.
Let us see.
The US could not fight a country like Ukraine because those numbers of war dead would not be acceptable to the American public. This is why the US is reluctant to really fight against peer powers and only bombs/murders poor defenseless people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the developing world.
You are in dire need of history lessons.
USA has fought a war with big powers and near-peer adversaries throughout its history.
- British Empire in Colonial times
- Spanish Empire in Colonial times
- Germany in World War 1
- Germany in World War 2
- Japan in World War 2
- North Korea in early 1950s
- Vietcong in the 1960s
- Iraq in 1991
- Yugoslavia in 1999
War On Terror was relatively different in its conduct - it was aimed to dismantle Al-Qaeda Networks around the world in response to 9/11, and this objective was achieved in the Middle East as well as in Af-Pak region. NATO invaded, occupied and changed the political landscape of Iraq in the mix. NATO also changed the political landscape of Libya in the mix.
Do you think modern Russia can replicate anything close to War On Terror on scale and scope? Not even remotely close.
Modern Russia has not fought a near-peer adversary in fact:
- Chechnya in the 1990s
- Georgia in 2008
- FSA in a war-torn and compromised Syria in the 2010s
- Ukraine in 2022
Russian military performance in Ukraine has shown the limits of its warfighting capability and capacity.
Russia has made a lot of noise about the modern weapons it has used during combat in Syria and how effective these new weapons are. Fresh Su-34 attack jets scream through the skies, while the latest in small arms test their mettle. But the reality is most of what Russia has used is not as shiny...
jalopnik.com
USA, UK and Germany have created military doctrines in fact. Others are followers.
Iraq created insurgency doctrine on the other hand. Afghan Taliban also adopted Iraqi insurgency tactics.
