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garlicroastedpotato t1_j6jo4uc wrote

Reply to comment by wastingvaluelesstime in US to renew efforts to reduce India's oil, military 'dependency' on Russia by Falls_stuff

In terms of Russia they only need hardware that is strong enough to bully their neighbors. They have nuclear weapons, they're not going to war with China or America any time soon.

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wastingvaluelesstime t1_j6jt864 wrote

Russia can't bully neighbors any more, not with how far behind they are. They are about to lose an war to ukraine and in a year or two the whole western border will be NATO. I guess they can try to bully azerbaijan, but, seem to be deterred from trying this in the last few years. If they go after Georgia it would get western weapons to defeat them. I doubt China would permit them to bully kazakhstan or north korea. So, they are outclassed by all neighbors.

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garlicroastedpotato t1_j6jy3ay wrote

Hopes are not reality. It would be nice if Russia lost a war soon. But the reality is Russia can sustain this war for a very very long time, Ukraine cannot. They're not about to lose anything other than their position in the world.

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wastingvaluelesstime t1_j6k3s38 wrote

Ukraine will go for as long as needed. If needed, if it came to it, the west will just put in foreign volunteers with next gen weapons. The whole thing is basically a trap which convinced russia to use up all its equipment and bleed itself white. When Russia was trying to rig our elections five years ago, no one could dream we could trick them into throwing a whole generation into a meat grinder with basically zero cost to the west.

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garlicroastedpotato t1_j6nwade wrote

There's already western soldiers in Ukraine. A lot of them returned home because they became really disenfranchised with just how badly the operations were run.

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