On Feb. 24, 2022, I—Vladimir Putin—sent troops into Ukraine to conduct a special military operation. As the president of Russia, I obviously expected resistance from leaders of certain key world powers, but I must say I’ve been surprised at how the United States, specifically, has reacted.
  • Ora
    45·
    3 years ago

    Holy fuck, obviously Russia isn’t going to try and single-handedly take on all of NATO. They’d have to back off which is why the US is sending weapons instead of deescalation, because “defense” and weapons is one of the biggest drivers of the US economy.

    • guojing
      28·
      3 years ago

      This is so funny because Russia has the most advanced military in the world. Particularly hypersonic missiles, which the u.s. wont have for years. And working missile defense systems.

      • pingveno
        61·
        3 years ago

        What are you even talking about? The US has far superior armed forces as this conflict has shown. Russia couldn’t even achieve a victory over a much smaller, weaker neighbor. And the US isn’t years off from hypersonic weapons. It just did a test run last month.

        • guojing
          13·
          3 years ago

          Russia destroyed the UAF as an organized fighting force during the first day with standoff weapons alone. And Russia did test runs of hypersonic weapons years ago, they are already deployed with frontline units.

          • pingveno
            31·
            3 years ago

            Again, you’re comparing Russia, a country of 144 million people, with Ukraine, a country with 100 million fewer people. And even then, Russia’s having a hard time of things. It also has proven to have piss poor logistics, terrible maintenance, and cringe worthy communication security that has gotten multiple generals killed. And if they’re avoiding civilian targets like they claim, they’re doing a piss poor job of that too. Even when the US was fighting wars on two fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq for an extended period of time from nearly the opposite side of the planet along with various other engagements around the globe, it wasn’t this bad.

            I’m not saying this because I’m like “'Murica! Fuck yeah!” I just don’t like a thoroughly inaccurate claim to go unchallenged.

            • guojing
              12·
              3 years ago

              Lmao you are swalling the nato propaganda hook line and sinker. Zero objectivity.

              • pingveno
                31·
                3 years ago

                I’m looking at Russia’s real life ability to conduct operations. I don’t know what to tell you if you’re not convinced by their conga line of broken down tanks, unencrypted communication over simple VHF frequencies, and more deaths in a month and a half than the US had in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The only thing saving Russia from being summarily kicked out of Ukraine right this moment is NATO’s desire to not escalate the situation any more than is strictly necessary.

                As for air force, of the top 10 military branches in the world by number of aircraft, four of them are parts of the US armed forces.