As we in the US and Europe have been claiming about the size of Russian economy - it’s that of Texas, that of Italy, that of California.
Alright. However, if that’s the case, how come that US, of which Texas or California is a part, haven’t been able to defeat it?
Europe, of which Italy is a part too, haven’t been either.
US and Europe combined haven’t been able to either.
Where’s the logic here?
Most of our military assets are still in our own countries.
Because we’re not a war with Russia. Unlike Russia, we do know how to perform a special military operation. If we were to run one, it would likely conclude within 2 to 3 months. At present time we are merely giving our old stockpile to Ukraine stuff that we would otherwise have to pay to safely dispose of. Believe it or not, most warheads have a shelf life before they become unstable and or not as viable.
Russian propaganda desperately wants to make this out to be a war between Russia and the US because that sounds a hell of a lot less pathetic than the reality which is that Ukraine using a bunch of hand-me-down military hardware has managed to not only stall out the Russian advance but push them back into their own territory.
Remember that Russia is ostensibly the second best military in the world…
Well, you can take Texas down with 4 days of 0°F, so…
We don’t have to defeat them.
Just like with the cold war, they will defeat themselves.
Economies arent fighting and US isn’t fighting Russia. US is just supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Russia is on the offense so they have to win to get back some of what they’ve spent on their attack.
The longer the war is drawn out, the more Russia has to keep spending resources. While their economy goes deeper in debt.
Russia automatically loses if they spend more on the war than they make from taking resources from Ukraine.
Its not about defeating. We aren’t trying to wipe Russian’s off the map or conquer them.
Define “defeat”? It’s not like they don’t have other allies in the world who will help them. Russia and China are allies as bad actors in the rest of the world. If sanctions against one go into effect, the other will help them out, as we’ve recently seen.
Russia has a terrible economy for the landmass they represent. They don’t effectively use their resources, and they are not an innovative economy either. They are just managing to scrape by, and aren’t in great shape.
So how do mean to “defeat” them?
