NATO vastly underestimated Russia’s ability to resupply its army with troops and ammo, general says
by vamosrafaaaaa
NATO vastly underestimated Russia’s ability to resupply its army with troops and ammo, general says
by vamosrafaaaaa
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Did they? Everyone on this sub knows they just toss men and machines endlessly. I doubt NATO was really suprised.
Odd because I don’t know anyone that is surprised by their ability to forcibly conscript mugs into dying for them. The ammo bit MIGHT be a surprise I don’t know, but the troop bit, not at all.
Russia buys ammo from North Korea
Nato *surprised pichachu face*
I mean russia basically prepared to **actually fight WW3**. During the cold war they basically turned their entire countryside into an arms depot.
Are these the same people who once said NATO vastly overestimated Russia’s fighting capabilities after everyone assumed they’d take Kiev in 3 days?
Make your mind…
Russia right now has a full war economy, they are better prepared right now, if a full scale war starts btw nato and russia, we will need at least 6 to 12 months to adapt our economy…
I genuinely don’t understand why the West is pussyfooting around the issue. Russia, a longtime adversary of the Western democratic project, has shown itself to be pathetically weak as a military power, AND has specifically threatened the territorial integrity of European countries that have already made that choice (e.g. the Baltic States).
The US alone spends over a trillion dollars on the military (when you count [VA](https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/04/spending-on-veterans-in-the-budget) and other services), and its spending in this arena has dwarfed other countries’ military budgets for decades. The US’s European allies in NATO collectively [spend](https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_216897.htm) several hundred billions of dollars per year on this. By comparison, [Russia spent](https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/military-spending-defense-budget) only 88 billion dollars on the military in its maximum outlier year of 2013, and its regular spending recently has hovered around $60 billion.
With the advantages gained from this absurd military spending, it would take maybe a day or two for Western airpower to decimate Russian logistics and maybe a week more to mop up frontline troops. Use the opportunity to put China on notice that, “if you mess with the bull, you’ll get the horns.” If my colloquialisms don’t give it away, I am American and, while I generally am against war, feel that military intervention is sometimes needed to halt escalations, rather than leading to an acceleration thereof. History has proven that threatened autocracies rarely accept their glide-path to irrelevance. Because he has nowhere else to go, Putin will escalate further. The only question is whether Ukraine and its friendly, decent people will be alive to fight on our side when he does. I say they deserve to do so, and we in the West should either ensure that is possible or degrade Russian military power enough to neutralize its threat to NATO.
What’s the point of these “one liner” articles? No one with any knowledge in military capabilities is surprised. Russia’s war is entirely propped up on their ability to conscript and scrape the bottom of the drawers for weaponry. We’ve known that for a long time.
Still doesn’t make them suddenly succesful, so I seriously question why we endorse this shit being written when it’s clearly made to sow doubt and fear in uninformed people.