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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
US, China & Russian Military Strength Compared
Military Defense Spending and Budgets
USA - $515,400,000,000
China - $59,000,000,000
Russia - $43,200,000,000
Aerial-Based Weapons
USA - 18,169
China - 1,900
Russia - 3,888
Navy Ships
USA - 1559
China - 760
Russia - 526
Aircraft Carriers
USA - 12
China - 1
Russia - 1
Destroyers
USA - 50
China - 21
Russia - 15
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I say the USA should not overreact to Russian aggression in the Ukraine. However, if Russia starts to build up it's forces in the Baltic, and threaten Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, the USA should threaten full-scale war with Russia.
Putin isn't stupid. He'll back down.
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Those numbers don't mean much when your fighting in someone else back yard. And this isn't like a game of C+C where you zerg rush all of your forces. It would take time for the American's to build up their forces there, and in order to do that they would have to be aware that Russian forces in the Region who know how American's fight would attempt to take the initiative.
Realistically the biggest advantage with the American's which is naval could be the biggest disadvantage in that the American Carrier groups would be in a limited area getting attacked by forces from multiple sides and being the focus of a lot of weapons.
Make no mistake, the American's are formidable.
but does the American government have a desire to take on another modern force because its going to be bloody and its going to be in the Ukraine.
And can they get the forces across the sea in enough numbers to get the minimum 3-1 correlation of forces that an attacking force needs to overwhelm a dug in well equipt defending army.
The Russian's have invested a lot of money in modernization, they represent a enemy that several times better trained and equip then the Iraqi's or Al Queda or the Taliban.
The Russians will throw the kitchen sink at them. The Russians are masters of the combined armed stuff.
Its a battle that I wouldn't fight because the Russians have the initiative right now, the shorter logistics line and they're built up in the area.
They also have a superior air defense and mobile air defense network then any enemy that the American's have fought since Vietnam. the standard opening move by the American's is a massive air campaign, they will take a lot of casualties there.