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Russia just invaded Ukraine --- for real this time
3 years ago
The sh** hit the fan real quick, didn't it?
I wish I could say that Ukraine was ready... but they aren't. Most of their tanks are T-64s (a design so bad that the T-72 was developed as an emergency last-minute successor), few of which have been modernized since the 1980s, and their fighters all date back to the 1980s. On top of that, at least two thirds of Ukraine's fighters have been inoperable for decades, due to a shortage of spare parts. I can't imagine that anything else in their inventory is in better shape. Ukraine's only warship, aside from auxiliaries and patrol craft, is a single Frigate, the Hetman Sahaydachniy.
They're gonna get curb-stomped, if they haven't already by the time you read this.
Ukraine has no allies. Several countries in Eastern Europe are on high alert over the invasion, but they don't have the power to affect the outcome of this war, and NATO doesn't want to get involved either.
The US is no ally of Ukraine either. The Beltway has spent the past 30 years using them to bait Russia (the same way a psychotic girlfriend tells the toughest and meanest guy at the bar that her boyfriend can completely PWN him), whilst simultaneously neither committing any US forces to defending it, nor selling them so much as even a single APC. The Pentagon's only contribution to Ukraine that I could find was Humvees, most of which were previously destined for the scrapyard due to being run far too hard for far too long in the War on Terror.
Not that the US has any reason to be an ally either, given that all other NATO countries disagree hard on the suggestion that Ukraine should ever be allowed to join NATO, and the US has neither militarily aided Ukraine ever, nor vice-versa. Also, off the top of your head, try to name five different trade products that Ukraine imports directly from the US, or vice-versa. That's also not even including the fact that a military confrontation with Russia is likely to end in a nuclear exchange.
This is going to end badly, and now you know why.
I wish I could say that Ukraine was ready... but they aren't. Most of their tanks are T-64s (a design so bad that the T-72 was developed as an emergency last-minute successor), few of which have been modernized since the 1980s, and their fighters all date back to the 1980s. On top of that, at least two thirds of Ukraine's fighters have been inoperable for decades, due to a shortage of spare parts. I can't imagine that anything else in their inventory is in better shape. Ukraine's only warship, aside from auxiliaries and patrol craft, is a single Frigate, the Hetman Sahaydachniy.
They're gonna get curb-stomped, if they haven't already by the time you read this.
Ukraine has no allies. Several countries in Eastern Europe are on high alert over the invasion, but they don't have the power to affect the outcome of this war, and NATO doesn't want to get involved either.
The US is no ally of Ukraine either. The Beltway has spent the past 30 years using them to bait Russia (the same way a psychotic girlfriend tells the toughest and meanest guy at the bar that her boyfriend can completely PWN him), whilst simultaneously neither committing any US forces to defending it, nor selling them so much as even a single APC. The Pentagon's only contribution to Ukraine that I could find was Humvees, most of which were previously destined for the scrapyard due to being run far too hard for far too long in the War on Terror.
Not that the US has any reason to be an ally either, given that all other NATO countries disagree hard on the suggestion that Ukraine should ever be allowed to join NATO, and the US has neither militarily aided Ukraine ever, nor vice-versa. Also, off the top of your head, try to name five different trade products that Ukraine imports directly from the US, or vice-versa. That's also not even including the fact that a military confrontation with Russia is likely to end in a nuclear exchange.
This is going to end badly, and now you know why.
Though, I think you may have underestimated how much help the US provided, not just in ATGMs and other munitions, but training, reconnaissance, and SIGINT.
But of course, the REAL credit for Ukraine doing this well goes to Ukraine.
Ukraine is enduring the war well .
Full stop.
Slava ukraini.
Having 1/10th of your soldiers dead and an additional 1/7th critically wounded isn't winning, especially when the enemy hasn't gotten serious yet.
So tell me... when are Russia getting serious? people keep telling me they're going to but from what I can tell they just keep floundering. so much for a three day operation.
all I can say really is... Well done Ukraine for upsetting the percieved global power balance to a point that the "second strongest military in the world" is now the second strongest military in Russia.