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Once again Id like to note that the european russian map above is still a country of respectable size and resources.

I'm actually going to disagree with that, Russians have been considered the backwards part of europe for a good chunk of their history, if anything a lot of their issues are not caused by pride but by a national inferority complex that they react to by over reacting and posturing. In a way its...

Russia's already collapsed a bunch of times, they collapsed during WW1, they collapsed with the soviet union, if they collapse again the worst case senerio is likely that china seizes the far east, japan takes all of the islands, the fins take the Kola pensular, and all of the ethnic breakaway...

Russia sometimes gives out the best gifts.

A lot of left wingers are mentally ill.

The US also proved that numbers mean a fucking hell of a lot in that same war. What made us terrifying was the amount of logistics and equipment we could bring to bear, so your kind of under cutting your argument there.

Korea is a good example yes, but theres also after world war 1 when people said numbers didn't matter. Fact is that terrain, technology, and culture changes what works and doesn't work in combat all of the time, some times the defense has the lead sometimes the offense and saying numbers wont...

Were going to see if your right or not, because that has been said before and proven wrong before.

This is why Russia uses raw numbers, it might even work for them again time will tell.

So basically the Russians are using this war to purge restive ethic groups? Yeah that checks out it's a very old Russian tactic

As others have said, Russia's logistics situation is pretty much borked. Getting stuff from China that's not so much a sign of weakness but having to get shells from freaking north korea and importing drones from Iran...that's just sad. They might still win this but the cost of blood is...

Russia's on the offense, their wars are traditionally casulity heavy, there are numerous reports from Russian troops about corruption and logistic problems so around 100,000 or so sound about right, comparing it to past industrialized wars namely the world wars this is actually light for russia...

yeah and Ukraine is going to have to kill a lot more then that to get the russians to stop. This is a country that is infamous for its ability to send wave after wave of men after a problem until it dies and Russia losing 120,000 men...um thats not enough. It took over a million combat losses...

now you get why a lot of people think the west is heading to ceasarism where a populist is put in power to just purge the people who support this.

I don't think thats realistic, most of the west has deep internal issues that are breaking out all over, we wont have the capacity to deliver said conquenses, but good news if Russia loses this war their demographics are so fucked that their likely just done as a major power.

That's actually a bad thing, we want incopetant stupid leadership during Russias dying days, a russia with competent leadership at the helm during that period is a lot more dangerous then one that bleeds itself to death and dies that way. This is about ending Russia as a threat once and for all.

war kind of sucks.

if Ukraine wins the war they will most likely return home as heroes.

Your British you lot would be fine it's everyone else on the continent that would be boned if we leave.

Has been since ivan the terrible