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Old 02-23-2022, 10:02 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
If the Russian's take the sky's the Ukraine military won't last long. And the Russians are different, militarily they're willing to take on a bloody war. It took a long time for the cost of blood to force the Soviets home in Afghanistan. Their whole culture is based around bloody conflict. And frankly Putin won't care.


Plus everyone loves a winner at home, if Putin flattens Ukraine fairly quickly then he won't see much opposition at home.
This is why I was saying Ukrainians need to make this as prolonged and bloody as possible. Slim chance of that I know, but hopefully they make use of some Western provided weapons, not that those munitions will last very long. Hopefully they can stall long enough that other countries come around and provide military aid of some kind.

As for Russian culture being based around bloody conflict, they can't really afford doing that anymore with the whole demographics problem they have. But that might not be Putin's problem tho since probably he'll be dead by then one way or another.
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