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Originally Posted by dammage79
I'm still baffled how Russia hasn't even flexed their collective muscle yet. I refuse to believe until I see that their entire armed forces have become rusted out lawn ornaments.
They haven't even flexed their naval presence properly.
And I still cannot believe they've used the best parts of their airforce.
I mean that is unless they completely missed the boat on how the rest of the world has gone away from old arsenal deployment strategies over the decades. But I can't see that! Like they've been in recent combat theaters as much as anyone! So how have they so completely missed the mark here? I don't get it. Even a simpleton like me is scratching my head at how the world's 2nd strongest military is just getting destroyed by the simplest deployment of mid range drones.
I'm still think that they're playing possum. Just don't understand why.
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Yeah, I'll admit I've had this thought too. Especially given it seems a large part of the invading force is conscripts caught off guard with the assignment, and seemingly outdated, poorly maintained machinery. The paranoid part of me almost thinks this seems too easy, and Putin is trying to goad NATO into a sense of overconfidence and a direct war with them before Russia unleashes the real deal of new weaponry and hardened veterans it was saving for that.
I'm not saying at all I actually think this is the case, I'm just saying I've had that uneasy thought at times. It's just so bewildering how poorly they seem to be performing for the world's #2 military.