Yet. That’s the problem with his behaviour and the reason why we need to see this as a lead up. He’s pushing boundaries, testing our resolve, finding cracks and stoking divisions. He’s not going to attack a NATO member yet, but sooner or later he will find the right time, the right member, to strike and expose our weakness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Putler can't even keep his logistics together 150km from his own border

His professional army is gone, it's all conscripts and poorly trained mercs from Africa and the Indian subcontinant

His modern armour is gone, Russia is fielding T-55s to cover losses

He has been denied air superiority over the combat theatre by 40 year old soon-to-be-retired weaponry

A third of the black sea fleet is at the bottom of the black sea and was put there by a country with no navy...

He wont do shit, he cant do shit...

All this and NATO havent even turned up yet

[–] tellah 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s not wise to underestimate the enemy. We need to stop this them as soon as possible. Time only helps them. Even with their ratshit military they can still hurt a lot of innocent people.

NATO havent even turned up yet

Maybe that’s that problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, no. Has Russia taken a lot of fatalities? Yeah. But they're also a huge country and a lot of what they've "lost" has to some extent areas where they'd consider the population expendable.

The thing is, while NATO etc bicker about supplying Ukraine - while fighting against internal sabotage by Russia's unspoken allies - they've been actively working on a functional war-economy and production, as well as arrangements with regimes such as Iran etc.

The West has this far been in the "send some older hardware but only for defence" mode, which is just recently, slowly turning around. Committing actual troops to war is not so much, and the militaries of many members have been grossly neglected for decades. Russia continues to push the line of "you don't want nuclear war, do you?" while also actively preparing for a larger scale conflict and pushing boundaries They, and China, Iran etc have also been increasingly active in technological/cyber attacks. Eventually, I fully expect them to go for broke. This probably won't actually start at another invasion but rather as increasing/coordinated infrastructure attacks on infrastructure and technology.