Quote Originally Posted by hollohas View Post
I'm not so sure. Russia is taking heavy losses for sure. And it's awful good to see how ineffective they truly are. However, they're still going to take much of Ukraine. And they're going to learn A LOT while doing it. They WERE ineffective, but they won't be when Ukraine is decided. It's a training ground for them and their military industrial complex is ramping up to keep them in it too. I'd prefer they stayed the old, drunk, rusted, ineffective and overrated military they were. I'd rather we weren't helping them learn how to fight again making them better for when they come at us.

PS - and them fighting against our weapons is only going to help them learn how to defend against them.


My tinfoil hat says the entire "conflict" was the only way russia & chi-na could gain access to US .mil hardware. Other than industrial espionage, which carries long prison terms, or death. This way, every (ok) almost every western power has been sending them current, or last gen hardware.