Not to mention the level of corruption in that county makes the GDP actually around the size of LouisianaLMCane said:RONA Ag said:DallasAg 94 said:
Question for those of you that keep up with International militaries.
Seems everything shown Russian looks to be rusted out and not well kept.
The strategy believed was that Russia was going to take a sliver of SE Ukraine and we were "surprised" they went after Kiev.
If I'm Putin... I set a distant marker, say beyond Kiev, so that I negotiate back to what I intend to take. You send in your crap vehicles knowing you are best to just abandon them, anyway, because they were being decommissioned.
Just seems Russia is either a media-driven facade and the curtain has been pulled back, or Russia's real military and armaments have not been deployed.
If this is the best Russia has, they likely have been exposed and are vulnerable to being attacked.
Initially that's what it appeared they did but the Ukrainians are blowing up or outright taking some of the best of the best of the Russian militaries weapons. Russia has proven they're fully committed thus far
The Russkies have definitely been committing some of their best weapons and systems to Ukraine.
There are 100 pages of pictures of their MLRS, Sukhois, T-80s, thermobaric launchers, uparmored BMP, Spetsnatz, IL 76 transports.
what makes you think that Russia (with a GDP of Texas) has some amazingly awesome Army just sitting around Moscow right now?