Yeah, it isn't an option, so why would they? People don't run towards nations like Russia and Belarus, they run away from them.
People run away from war. That's their only choice. Later they come back.
But in the 1930s it did not. JFC, stop with garbage history references that have no relevance to the present. Russia is realising that this is not a cake walk. They have already lost more than twice as many troops as NATO lost in Afghanistan and Iraq combined over 20 years, and the lines have barely moved since 2 weeks ago and recently they lost some ground. And we are pre-insurgency at this point. In fact Putin can't even begin to dream about the insurgency phase of this war yet, even though it in itself will be a nightmare.
Same rules.
And the Russian AF is mainly hiding in its hangars. This Su-57 was spotted at low altitude because clearly its stealth capability is non-existent.
As Turkey prepares to broker peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv, a video doing the rounds on social media purportedly shows Russia’s most advanced stealth aircraft, Sukhoi-57, flying over the northern region of Ukraine. Foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia arrived in Turkey on March 10 for...
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They have like 1 jet.
What? You think NATO leaders like the US, UK, France and Germany are going to stand up in parliament an announce a bill to invade Russia with tanks via Ukraine, if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine.? Please answer this because I need to understand the stupidity of the person I'm conversing with.
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Er... Yes. That's the point. The West has invaded more countries than anybody else in the last many decades.
Pffft. And this is just an insurgency? Wiki disagrees.
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Silly boy, we are talking about a long term insurgency after the war is done with and Russia is occupying Ukraine.
It took 26 days of major combat operations and Baghdad was captured in 19 days of ground war with very few casualties. The air war lasted 1 day with no losses. You might also notice that they had to invade from the south and Baghdad is a lot further from the south border than Kyiv is from the north border. There were no periods of stagnation in the advance. Russia could advance on several fronts and has not achieved air superiority yet even, it has also largely stagnated. And Russia is fighting on its doorstep, NATO was not. Desert Storm was against the 4th largest military in the world, it took 6 weeks, the ground war took just 100 hours.
You must be very good at math. 19 March to 30 April is 26 days?
Doesn't work like that, you can't train people for new equipment whilst they're busy dying. Iraq and Afghanistan slowed major military programs significantly and they were more like a safari compared to Ukraine wrt losses.
Lol, but in just the previous page you said the West will be giving Ukraine Abrams, Challengers, ATACMS, Patriots and whatnot.
We're not buying their oil and gas though.
Oh, wow. Are you referring to yourself in the royal third person? Or are we talking about "the West"?
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Russian oil will be toilet cheap and oil is now stabilising at $94/bbl in general, which is well down on historic highs.
Yes, toilet cheap for India and China. You guys pay the full price.
With the Ruble halved Putin will struggle to buy imports.
He may not need to. Industrialised economies import when domestic products are more expensive than imports.
The more the ruble falls, the faster the Russians industrialise. And they will steal tech to indigenise, while improvising on what they cannot steal.
Companies looking for low cost destinations will set up factories in Russia to manufacture and sell to the world. So we could see Russia becoming a major supplier of renewable energy technologies for example.
The current BMD is aimed at rogue actors like Iran and DPRK, it is incapable of stopping 2000 warheads, even if it had a 100% Pk.
The current BMD, like GMD, is aimed at Russia. And Russia is also working on such BMD capabilities, aimed at the US.
The first step is to get it right, hence the small numbers. The next step is to increase interception per missile and mass produce to lower costs.
The GBI has a diameter of 1.28m. The SM-3 has a diameter of 0.34m. In theory, you can stick 14 SM-3 interceptors inside 1 GBI. With a slightly bigger missile, you can stick even more in. A 2m dia missile can carry 34 of them. Assuming 3 interceptors per warhead, a single missile can stop 11. Let's assume 10. If we assume Russia has 2000 warheads in ICBMs, you will need 200 missiles to intercept them. Easy peasy. With better technologies, the quality of interceptors can be increased.
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