Makes sense to me, since this is also why they sent the Chechens and Belarussians. Its not because "lol Russia BTFOd Moscow will fall in 48 hours" its "Ivan dont care about what happens to Chechen but Ivan do care (a bit) what happens to Ivan."
Taking my info from the best military informed breakdown that I've heard (Task & Purpose's breakdown by DD214ed GWOT Infantryman Chris Cappy, ignore the goofball shit at the beginning, it's actually a detailed tac analysis):
The important points (to me) are this:
>Of the troops that were amassed on the RU/Ukraine border by Russia, only 1/3rd of that force has actually invaded, with the remaining 2/3rd still being kept in reserve.
>The Russian advance stopping at night and only making advances during daylight is indicative that the 1/3rd that was sent in is not NOD equipped.
>Given the inferior equipment and morale of some of the Russian troops witnessed, it's postulated that the Russians have sent in the shoddily equipped Conscript soldiers for the invasion as a method to essentially "scout" and gauge the resistance and response of the Ukrainian forces. This serves a double purpose because it obfuscates the actual power and capability of your military force.
So, if things get rough and resistance is high, they can send in the well equipped professional 2/3 that's in reserve to get things moving, otherwise the meandering results of the conscripts are fine given that they aren't being pushed back, and the fact that Russia DGAF about friendly losses on the same level the west does.
I'm not going to pretend I'm some military geopolitical expert, but this explanation makes sense to me. If you could get the job done for cheaper and less "cost" on their end.
It's essentially if the US decided to invade Canada, and they sent a force of draftees in using recently unmothballed M60 Pattons, M113s (Gavins), M16A2s, and Huey gunships.
Sure, it's going to take longer, you're going to lose a lot of vehicles, and the troop morale will be low.
But it does give you a very effective manner of gauging the enemy resistance at only the loss of draftees, because you send them in with no valuable equipment.
Maybe Russians military is just a retard-fest, but you have to remember, Russia looking weak, but ultimately achieving their strategic and tactical goals is a possible PsyOps objective on their part. This isn't meant to be a show of force, I think. They're actually trying to achieve specific tactical goals, and your enemy looking like a bunch of mouthdrooling retards is oftentimes to their advantage unless it's just going to be strictly posturing.
Maybe we'll soon start seeing T-14s, T-90M Proryv-3s, and Ka-52s getting knocked out en-masse, but so far, all I've seen is shitty mothballed previous gen vehicles getting banged or ditched (possibly due to mechanical failure due to how ancient/unmaintained some of the equipment is).
Maybe I'm off base, but I just remain skeptical of the situation.
This reminds me of Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain and Peace Walker.
Where you could send units outside for some serious business and the game offered players the chance to send in the cannon fodder retards or the best of the best, knowing some could die.
I always choose to send in the retards but make sure to exclude the women so it didn't become a sausage fest at the base.
They don't need a buffer state and in fact they're creating more near by and even bordering nato applicants lol. Idk why you keep circling around to points like this that simply are plainly not true, the costs of war will outweigh any benefit they could wring out of Ukraine, are they going to try and invade Finland next? They've also shown the world you need your nation to have nukes to keep Russia at bay.
The only way that logic makes sense is if you're convinced Russian emaciated excuse for an empireis capable of reclaiming the better part of the iron curtain and becoming a serious threat to the west beyond " ok don't hit them directly openly they have nukes left from when they were something"
They don't need a buffer state and in fact they're creating more near by and even bordering nato applicants lol. Idk why you keep circling around to points like this that simply are plainly not true, the costs of war will outweigh any benefit they could wring out of Ukraine, are they going to try and invade Finland next? They've also shown the world you need your nation to have nukes to keep Russia at bay.
The only way that logic makes sense is if you're convinced Russian emaciated excuse for an empireis capable of reclaiming the better part of the iron curtain and becoming a serious threat to the west beyond " ok don't hit them directly openly they have nukes left from when they were something"
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A fair understanding of geography would point out attempting to invade let's say Finland would be much more difficult vs if they simply invade Ukraine. Ideally Russia would like to have up to the Carpathian mountains as it's border.
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A fair understanding of geography would point out attempting to invade let's say Finland would be much more difficult vs if they simply invade Ukraine. Ideally Russia would like to have up to the Carpathian mountains as it's border.
Didn't Bald and Bankrupt have that Asian-American guy with him when he went to Poland?
I'm starting to think this is more about those groups of people not having correct immigration paperwork and having to wait around for the Poles to figure out who they are before they let them in. It's not like Lviv is particularly dangerous atm
Contact your consular representative. I would refuse to do anything without speaking to someone from the embassy. Some Slavic cops doesn't want to make this an international incident.
Posted earlier, but I'd like to just reemphasize that the reason we care so much about "democracy" in Ukraine is they've historically helped our ruling elite steal a lot of money.
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Apparently saber-rattling over WW3 and completely destroying the credibility of the SWIFT system is worth it to maintain the Biden family income.
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