If it were Poland instead of Ukraine, and there was no response (or even just a lackluster one), that would certainly show that. But Ukraine isn’t a NATO member. You’d see the same had Russia invaded New Zealand… you wouldn’t get to say “NATO is impotent, they didn’t even bother to protect this non-member in a non-Atlantic ocean”.
If anything, Russia should be worried that so many NATO members and their populaces were itching to somehow find an excuse to get in the fight.
Given that NATO trained and armed Ukraine which had by far the largest military in Europe after Russia, I really can’t imagine why Russia would be worried here.
It’d be like a video game.
Just like it was in Syria where US stopped flying bombing missions once Russia put S400 anti aircraft systems there.
I’ll give you India. But China? That’s more like Russia has had the leash padlocked to its neck. America is experiencing the same too, a little at a time, so I’m not saying we’re doing any better in that regard… but oof. Wouldn’t be bragging about China.
It’s unarguable that Russia is much better off relying on China than the west which has been openly hostile towards Russia for its entire existence. Whatever problems they might have in their relationship will be far lesser than the problems Russia has now.
Big claims. Don’t worry, I’ll let you have 18 months or so for them to bear out before I chuckle.
The former Soviet republics that know better than to fuck with Moscow support Russia.
Ah yes, former soviet republics like China, India, and South Africa.
Yeh, and if that were the only thing coming its way, it’d probably shrug it off. They’re really in a position of “things can’t get much worse” in the literal sense, so how could the economic implosion hurt them?
You really do live an alternate reality bud. What economic implosion are you talking about here, last I checked the rouble was trading at the pre-invasion levels already.
It’s starting to look like their military is all a sham.
It’s starting to look like you’ve been guzzling propaganda. Go watch that interview with an actual US military expert and see what he thinks.
They shat the bed.
You’ve illustrated in this thread that you have absolute and utter lack of knowledge of the subject. However, I don’t really need to convince you of anything here because reality will break through soon enough and even delusional people will have to start grappling with it.
It shows that Russia can act unilaterally, and NATO will not engage Russia directly. You don’t have to take my word for it though. Go ahead and listen to what a former Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector has to say about it.
Given that NATO trained and armed Ukraine which had by far the largest military in Europe after Russia, I really can’t imagine why Russia would be worried here.
Just like it was in Syria where US stopped flying bombing missions once Russia put S400 anti aircraft systems there.
It’s unarguable that Russia is much better off relying on China than the west which has been openly hostile towards Russia for its entire existence. Whatever problems they might have in their relationship will be far lesser than the problems Russia has now.
Western financial experts aren’t chuckling, but I’m sure you know better. https://www.reuters.com/business/imf-warns-russia-sanctions-threaten-chip-away-dollar-dominance-ft-2022-03-31/
Ah yes, former soviet republics like China, India, and South Africa.
You really do live an alternate reality bud. What economic implosion are you talking about here, last I checked the rouble was trading at the pre-invasion levels already.
It’s starting to look like you’ve been guzzling propaganda. Go watch that interview with an actual US military expert and see what he thinks.
You’ve illustrated in this thread that you have absolute and utter lack of knowledge of the subject. However, I don’t really need to convince you of anything here because reality will break through soon enough and even delusional people will have to start grappling with it.