There are currently Turkish, Indian, American & Hungarian observers at Zapad - from the allied powers.
Without nukes, every superpower is a fart in the wind, as long as one nation has them and uses them to impose their will on the world at large. This is why there needs to be multiple nuclear armed nations, without it there is no balance. Call my view controversial, but the world needs Russia to keep the nukes. The world needs everyone to keep their nukes until every single nation disarms at once. Unfortunately this will never happen.
Yeah, the reality sucks. To me, the reality is we are going to have half a dozen more nuclear powers by 2050, and 2100 we will have something far more destructive. Perhaps anti-matter explosives. It’s just the way things go.
Not at all. US and China could still really fuck some shit up even without their nukes and good luck invading either. Even without their nukes. Hate to give China credit. But yea.
The Russian have in fact self demoted themselves from Superpower whilst completely skipping World Power and landing firmly on regional power.Strip away the nukes and Russia isn’t a superpower it’s background noise.
Ukraine has been grinding the Kremlin’s army with warehouse leftovers and museum pieces from the West. Not our best stuff. Not even close. And still the “second army in the world” bleeds out. Pathetic.
No nukes, no mystique. Just a corrupt gas station with delusions. A fart in the wind.
Russia could barly get its navy to sail to Cuba for a "drill" without it falling appart for cripes sake dude. 
Had to be towed half the way!
Yes, China and the U.S. have enough conventional arms to make all kinds of problems. The issue is, you cant make said problems when one nation has the nuclear boogeyman, and can flex that any time they want.
Just for shits and giggles I was looking back to the first time they’ve accused us of it. The defcon update for August of 2022 mentioned Russia for the first time accused the United states of being directly involved in the conflict. So they’ve been saying it for three years at this point.Russia’s entire Ukraine adventure is the most humiliating faceplant of modern history.
Putin sells his brain dead masses at home & his useful idiots in the west the fantasy that they’re “fighting NATO,” while in reality his army is being shredded by leftover Western junk we dug out of storage closets not even being made anymore. Not the new gear. Not the best gear. Just the dusty bottom shelf scraps. And still Russia bleeds.
This war isn’t about “security.” It isn’t about NATO. It’s about one paranoid dictator’s fixation on clawing ONE warm water port at the cost of hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen. ONE.
Russia traded its future, its economy, its people’s lives, and its dignity for Putin’s vanity project to take JUST ONE warm water port. Pathetic.
Which is one of the reasons why I don’t see this as a NATO/Russia war yet. It’s a headline for shock value and clicks. When an actual NATO nation is directly exchanging fire, or they formally announce the declaration of war, then I will see it as such, and promptly review bugout plans.
Not even slightly. Indian far, far, far outweighs Pakistan conventional army. HENCE why Pakistan has a first use nuclear doctrine. Because they know they will be steamrolled by India in any conventional conflict so nukes get used pretty quickly for Pakistan to level battlefield against India massive army compared to Pakistan.
Yeah it’s just to keep Russian citizens engaged in the war effort and explain the difficulty they’re having against what they were told was an easy target who would welcome them with open arms.
Most likely a FPV one. Good example of hybrid warfare.
DN while I agree that Putin’s war in Ukraine has been a major blow to Russias standing as a world military power.Russia’s entire Ukraine adventure is the most humiliating faceplant of modern history.
Putin sells his brain dead masses at home & his useful idiots in the west the fantasy that they’re “fighting NATO,” while in reality his army is being shredded by leftover Western junk we dug out of storage closets not even being made anymore. Not the new gear. Not the best gear. Just the dusty bottom shelf scraps. And still Russia bleeds.
This war isn’t about “security.” It isn’t about NATO. It’s about one paranoid dictator’s fixation on clawing ONE warm water port at the cost of hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen. ONE.
Russia traded its future, its economy, its people’s lives, and its dignity for Putin’s vanity project to take JUST ONE warm water port. Pathetic.
Thats what I was referring to, when I meant short term damage.
Yes that one would have gotten bad quick.
Pakistan has technological parity thanks to China, but they don’t have the numbers to keep up with it. Hence why they can fight pretty well for a short conflict but anything long enough to effect losses and we would see them tumble.
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