12 Jul 2023 7:12 am
If Ukraine was doing so well, one might wonder why we would supply cluster bombs.Bruce » 11 Jul 2023, 10:56 pm » wrote: ↑ Here is Putin’s problem today.
He rules a thug ocracy. The Soviets sold all major industries thirty years ago to oligarchs. It’s a stagnant, corrupt, Russian version of crony capitalism.
But Russia still had what the world thought was a formidable conventional army, one that could slice through to the Rhine in days, a week at most.
His army can’t take Kyiv. The Ukrainians just mauled it.
Can you imagine 50,000 dead and 150,000 severely wounded soldiers, 4,000 lost armored vehicles, and then a rebel brigade gets within a hundred miles of Moscow?
The West no longer fears invasion.
NATO would just devastate the attackers.
And Russia has nothing we don’t have already, but better.
