>>2498148You're right PLA is inexperienced, but then again so is the US army, which rot with the peace dividend and irregular/colonial wars
I think Chinese strength comes from how the island chain is becoming less sustainable. If there's a war over Taiwan, catastrophic US navy losses the US is not used to would impact the home front and a blockade on Taiwan would subdue it
>>2498425Russia's long-term future is in Europe, and the damage being done to European polities helps with this.
Russia, moreover, is finally able to deficit spend (Russia has around 20% of GDP government debt) and this doing wonders for the Russian economy.
So, while I see this as extremely costly war, I still see Russia as net winning here. Moreover, what it's doing for RIC, SCO, and BRICS is excellent.
The reason I'm pushing for greater NATO involvement is Russia can take it, and if it can't, we finally get past the disgusting proxy war aspect of the war and the PLAGF joins the grinder.
>>2498567Yes, because Ukraine will break, and Russia is getting better. If NATO enters the PLAGF will enter. You can keep trotting out "my wunderwaffe" and "muh freedoms", but the wunderwaffe get trashed and your freedoms are to shoot up schools and orphanages.
Why troll an unwinnable war for the West when even Trump is getting out?
>>2498457>Russia's long-term future is in EuropeUK & EU bourgeoisie would most likely not accept Russia, even if Cucktin would totally cuck to the "west". SPIEGEL recently revealed in an article that Clinton actually wanted Russia to join NATO and Russia wanted to join NATO, however Kohl and others managed to prevent it despite Clinton really pushed for it in the 90ies. Russia would disturb the "balance of power" in Europe, the Anglo-Saxon & EU establishment really fears that Russia would diminish the established order and eventually dominate the continent. Also Poland still dreams of making it big, that is restoring their Commonwealth thing and more, probably conquering Moscow. Apparently these insufferable freaks are now eyeing Königsberg/Eastern Prussia as well, which was always German and never even remotely Polish.
Maybe there was a timeframe in the 2000s for Russia joining the EU back when people like Chirac, Schröder, Juncker, Berlusconi etc. represented the EU, maybe still even under Merkel (she would deny it today). Today it's impossible, the EU is firmly russophobic not least thanks to the butthurt Visegrad lobby which occupies A LOT of the most powerful positions in Brussels.
"The purpose of NATO is to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down" - Baron Ismay Hastings (first general secretary of NATO)
>>2498667Which is why we're having this war, no? Break the Atlanticists and force them, at least spiritually, to join the Ukrainians on the front lines.
If, say, AfD, BSW, and/or Die Linke control the Reichstag (or it's been burned down by Oreshnik), how would Europe proceed?
>>2498354If you keep using
my flag, I'm going to sue. That's not even a
True Spectacle, you assclown. There have been no spectacles all week. We are veritably starved for spectacles, though the Ukros are whining about an upcoming massive attack.
>>2498809Oh no, another red line huh?
They're gonna do what? Send another 100.000 Russians to fight a pointless land war while NATO missiles fly freely into Russia?
OH noes, not that. Please.
>>2498452The only real war experience left in the US military is senior officers who might have seen action in Iraq 2003 as battalion level officers. And that was much more one sided than the Yankoids like to pretend. Wehraboos will claim it is about the cultural shifts that war time militaries undergo but the GWoT period was notorious for officers being cycled through just to get a ribbon, and subsequently getting fuck all experience and no punishment for incompetence.
The majority of junior enlisted turn over after four years, which means the majority have never seen any action beyond guarding an airfield in Oman. Special operations personnel last ten-twenty years. Senior NCOs last twenty (to qualify for retirement full pension). So currently only some turbo-lifer SNCOs who are staying in beyond retirement age would have been involved in 2003.
>>2498679>voronezh republicwhat the fuck is this kek
why they think that black-earth is not russia kek
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