One drone carrying an RPG is scary... But a swarm of little drones, that's nightmare fuel.. Even the US Army is already making exercises to figure out how to defend agains drone swarms.
A bunch of drones with RPG launchers that can't shoot straight may be scary, but they won't be useful. It's just not cost effective to have to fire 50 RPGs just to score a single hit.
"Tell me you have no idea how economy works without telling me you have no idea how economy works"
I see what you did there!
As for support for Puttler never ever said russians are smart people. They are feed propaganda and vodka from tzar era.
The Russians are smart people but their government is corrupt. I seriously doubt that Putin won more than one of his elections fairly.
As for Russian propaganda, there's a saying that the only difference between a Russian and an American is that the American
believes his government's propaganda while the Russian does not.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the US won’t get tired of dumping countless billions into this until they’ve reached their goal of weakening Russia to the point where Russia is no longer a relevant country other than ‘they got nukes’.
The problem is, the fact that 'they got nukes' means that Russia will
always be relevant. Having Nukes kinda has a way of doing that.
What the US has given so far is peanuts compared to their annual military spending.
This is a very cost effective way for them to reduce Russia’s military capability.
Yeah but that's not setting the bar very high. The USA habitually squanders
billions of dollars a year on clerical errors within its military.
Right now, it’s Europe that’s hurting the most in the west due to their own stupidity, but that will improve in time once they find alternatives to Russian gas.
Well, as usual, France is ahead of the curve as their country is literally
dotted with nuclear plants. Germany, uncharacteristically, did
not invest in nuclear or hydro which puts them behind the 8-ball when it comes to energy production.
But even if we assume your scenario comes to fruition, from a purely financial perspective, I find it hard to believe it will be worth it. All that for a little bit of land?
According to some analysts, it has something to do with the strategic position of Ukraine at the western edge of the (almost) indefensible flat plain that lies east of the Carpathians. Putin is paranoid that they could be easily invaded without the Carpathians as a natural barrier.
However, now that Finland is joining NATO, Russian control of the Carpathians is no longer strategically significant because a NATO assault from Finland would directly threaten the Kola peninsula which is where Russia keeps the bulk of its military assets.
Let’s be real here. Putin thought Ukraine would just roll over like a happy puppy and let him take everything in a matter of days.
Methinks that Putin should've watched more Deep Space Nine because that's what the Dominion expected as well. War has a way of not working out according to plan...
What actually happened was that he rammed his dingdong into a hornet’s nest.
That's probably not the worst thing that he's ever rammed his dingdong into. Don't forget about Trump.
The best he can hope for now is a Pyrrhic victory, and a very expensive one at that.
"If we are victorious in one more battle with Ukraine, we shall be utterly ruined!"
- Vladimir Putin, 2022
I suspect that is what he is hoping for as history has a tendency to focus more on the big events and people rather than the nitty gritty numbers. He cares more about having his name in the history books than the people who had to die for that.
Of course he does. That's how a psychopath's mind works.
