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Russia won't escalate to nuclear, but it will have to escalate, which is going to ruin the rest of Ukraine all for a chance of getting more intelligence on Russian capabilities.
small price to pay for the US. Not like anyone in Ukraine can complain. Not like any westerner ever sees anything about the consequences. Not like the lackeys "in charge" in Ukraine will say anything about it. The US will just pay off their most loyal puppets and move on to the next country to destroy.
How will Russia escalate further? They are already doing almost everything they can, including deploying troops in Ukraine from other countries like NK, and indiscriminate bombing of civilian centers in Ukraine.
Russia has no capability to escalate the war besides nukes, which they won't use. It's amusing y'all think this is a big deal, it's not and nothing will happen. The US should have approved these strikes the minute we supplied the weapons in the first place.
Troops from DPRK have not been in Ukraine, they are only in Russia. They also don’t indiscriminately bomb civilian areas, that’s Ukraine. It’s clear you have gotten a distorted and biased stream of information on what this war has entailed. If Russia was so desperate, why are they winning on all fronts? What are you even talking about? Russia could easily flatten all of Kiev and Lviv overnight if they just carpet bombed them like you claim they do. That’s how Israel and the US fights, not Russia.
Russia slowly pushes an advance with artillery and only uses precise missile strikes on weapon depots, drone manufacturing, energy, oil depots, etc behind the front-lines. Civilians evacuate from these areas and they become grayzone in the frontlines, with monthlong artillery duels going on and pushes with a couple dozen armored vehicles. They use drones to attrition enemy supply lines.
None of this is "indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas" there's always a military target.
Whereas Israel and the US just do indiscriminate air strikes taking out city blocks until the entire populated area is reduced to rubble. They did this throughout Asia and the Middle East. This kills tens to hundreds of thousands of civilians per month. The Russia-Ukrainian war has gone on 3+ years and has less civilian casualties than Israel's recent massacres since Al Aqsa Flood which are 1/3 as old.
Russia has 10x more personnel and equipment not being used in any way or form in this war. They can double the forces and go harder on the offensive.
Sources: Am in Russia, business is as usual for the most part.
Additional source: My nephews who boasted achieving best results in class at riffle re-assembly. Meaning that this soviet-era class is revived and that there is at least a couple dozen rifles in every single school across the country, being used as child's toys.
EDIT: Fuck, it's even worse than I expected — he just launched a motherfucking ICBM, that crazy old bastard.
Hopefully they'll provide Ansarallah with advanced weapons which will lead to very cool things happening in and around the red sea.
EDIT: or they could just start using non-nuclear weapons on NATO assets themselves
The red sea stuff would be interesting and a more realistic option, but they won't strike NATO because NATO would easily wipe the floor with Russia.
Russia's 3 day invasion has turned into a multi year disaster because they can't fight against decade old NATO tech, they know they aren't capable of besting NATO
Other than Ukraine where Russia has gradually ground the UAF into dust when is the last time NATO equipment and tactics were used against a near peer?
All NATO troops know how to do is massacre civilians and bomb militias.
You think Russia is a peer to NATO? xD
In this hypothetical situation where NATO and Russia fight, I really don't think much man-to-man combat would happen. It would all be advanced weapons systems and drones, which Russia is significantly behind (decades) NATO.
UAF has been ground in to dust but so has the Russian Armed Forces, at worst they are equally dust
Russian missile and drone technology is ahead of NATO. The west doesn’t even have hypersonic glides. Fucking DPRK has more advanced missiles than the US. You are woefully out of your depth here
Dang here I thought I just disagreed with you folks but your coming out spitting strait brain rot. Brother Russia can't even produce semiconductors that are of this decades vintage, the DPRK can't produce any advanced technology at all, and you think they can make superior weapons?
I believe Russia's most advanced fabs can produce 90-nanometer chips, while the rest of the world is making sub 5 nanometer chips. Your cope is amusing
Americans don’t have hypersonic missiles. DPRK does. I never said Russia was ahead in chip production but they don’t need to be, China will provide everything in that regard. They have better rocketry, better drones, better mass production, better logistics
We have already seen what a NATO vs. Russia war looks like, in Ukraine, and Russia won
xD NATOs multi decade old stock pile has exposed Russia as the worlds weakest 'super power'
Are Patriot SAMs “old stock piles”? How about HIMARs? Keep coping, it’s NATOs main tech that has been defeated. If they had better drones, they would have used them by now
Yes HIMARS is old, Ukraine doesn't have anywhere near any of the latest missiles for the HIMARA system. In fact, I think all the ATACMS we sent them are end of life and we're about to be decommissioned.
Patriot is newer and has been working well, they just don't have enough systems to cover all of Ukraine.
You seem to be the one coping, I haven't once stated Ukraine has won or is winning and you keep saying Russia is winning when if you look at all the open source data, it's obvious both sides are taking massive losses and nobody is winning.
Russia has knocked out over a dozen Patriot missile batteries. Russian missiles have free reign over all Ukrainian skies without any anti-air defense. You are in a deluded world. Russia is not taking "massive losses" that's made up fake cope from Western Media.
xD okay, you've convinved me NATO lost and so did the west, I'm moving to Russia or NK. Maybe Belarus, It's hard to pick since the quality of life is so much worse in all of those countries than almost the entire west, but I can't live in a loser country like this anymore.
Do you live in one of these beautiful countries?
Honestly, I would rather live in North Korea or Russia than in this slowly crumbling empire shithole founded on genocide, slavery, eugenics, and the perfecting of exploitation, surrounded by the most pasty, pathetic, and propagandized motherfuckers the world has ever known, which you are testament to seeing as you thought Ukraine was winning this, lol. Of course I would have to give up a lot of treats to live in NK, but the treats here are mostly garbage anyway, and at least I'd have an actual sense of community and not have to exist as an atomized drone in a rotting wasteland of billboards, fast"food" franchises and traffic-jammed SUVs from horizon to horizon. Moving to Russia would probably feel like a mostly lateral shift in QoL, but it must be nice to live in a country with a rich history of killing nazis instead of saving, funding, idolizing, and actually you know, being nazis.
Whatever though. It sure was fun watching @Z_Poster365@hexbear.net completely fucking school you on basic shit your coping ass kept pathetically trying to deny.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean once again I never said Ukraine was winning, why do you guys keep making things up?
But Z_Poster did convince me that NATO lost, so you know you guys win. I'm convinced!
You probably thought Ukraine was winning for 2 years, listening to your western sources, and now are totally confused why everyone now admits Russia has won, even your own sources.
Don't you ever question why the entire war turned upside down in an instant and people with shovels somehow defeated NATO?