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Originally Posted by Mathgod
This is the sinking feeling I have about this too. The Russian military had a bunch of old junk left over from the Soviet Union that they wanted to get rid of anyway, so they sent it into Ukraine along with their least skilled soldiers that they viewed as basically cannon fodder to thin out the Ukraine forces, and are planning to send in their best stuff once the Ukraine forces are already weakened and worn down.
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I don't give them that much credit.
Why not sell their "old junk" to African countries instead of just having it destroyed by Ukrainians and losing troops?
A brand new T-90 with no fuel is the same as a 50 year old T-72 with no fuel. They are bad military strategists, it turns out.