To my knowlege there has been no appreciable change in technology for dealing with winter and all the problems that entails since World War 2. Supply chains still rely on trucks, cold is dealt with by giving the soldiers coats and gloves, snow still gets into shit and freezes your feet off if you are not careful. Etc. The issues of fighting in the winter are the same today as they were back then. It fucking sucks. Especially for the invader.
Russia is the expert in winter warfare if there is one. They aren't going to have oil shortages, if they invade Ukraine in the winter they probably find it advantageous. It's the 21st century, hypothermia is about as deadly as dysentery.
Russia has never won a war with any sort of tactical genius or strategy beyond simply outlasting the enemy through attrition. Nobody ever looks at Russia for cunning generals or implementing new cutting edge technology. They only rose to prominence during the 50's as a global superpower for due to happen stance as every other developed nation beside America had destroyed themselves. Whenever another nation comes along with any sort of bone to pick with the Russians they usually end up losing outright or just simply take the beating. Happened with the Mongolians, Japanese, Germans, Swedish, and even the Finnish. I will give them credit for simply still managing to exist despite all of these humiliations and Stalin was good at keeping his country stable post-war and maintaining it's scavenged influence/power, however it's not not hard to see why lots of people throughout history have labeled Russia as weak and militarily retarded.
Your post was fine until you started making that dumb comparison. People can still die from hypothermia very easily. It’s not something to take lightly. That’s like saying we don’t have to worry about altitude sickness because we have oxygen tanks.
>10 million Ukranians
Kaganovich letters disagree. Ukrainians showed particular resistance to Soviet regime and collectivization and the most "kulaks" were in Ukraine.
modern trucks can deal with adverse conditions a lot better than the trucks that were in use 80 years ago.
We had problems with people getting frostbite in Southern California. Winter straight sucks for men lying in ditches, distributing lead.
Being able to feed troops in winter is certainly one part of the equation, but I think you are underestimating just how hard it is to conduct maneuver in winter. Roads are fine once you have secured them, but not so fine when fighting a maneuver battle that could last for weeks. Europe in winter is fucking cold. I still have nightmares about my winter exercise at Grafenwoehr. It got so bad the commander had to order us to stop posting pickets at the checkpoint and moved whole platoons into one common tent that they could heat.
that POTUS is retarded and delusional, just like the false flagging fact checkers and war consultants.
That's... not exactly true. besides I've noticed that winters come much warmer than a decade ago. hell, it's a middle of the damn December and I have seen a snow only once, for a very short period of time. Close to the lunch time there was no snow at all.
im not saying it doesnt matter, im saying russia is aware and prepared for it, and ukraine as well, so it's not going to be a war deciding factor like it was for napoleon and hitler, who were very much un- or underprepared for it.
I'm not arguing with you, just the guy who says cold is irrelevant because we have amazon now.
