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