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Originally Posted by Leondros
Please elaborate how you think the west is in a more dangerous situation since Russia began its war. They are going through their inventory at alarming rates and the west has spent no human capital and war stores are sufficient.
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Depends how you define "dangerous". One of the mistakes Western politicians, citizens and frankly NATO makes on a consistent basis is assuming that a conflict with russian entails a shooting match, bombs dropping on each other, or tanks rolling over the borders. Yet, russia has been in a conflict with us for years through the various disinformation campaigns, propaganda on a massive scale, and blackmail/bribery of various politicians and their parties. That is infinitely more effective then the military conflict NATO is prepared for.
Turning a blind eye to all that and thinking that as long as russia isn't rolling tanks over the border or dropping nukes means we are "safe", that is what makes it dangerous. Because now you have multiple Western entities ignoring russia's doings as long as nothing is going boom or shots fired. Russia has been eating us internally for years now. It works. And the West is too stupid/lazy to react to it, let alone recognize it's happening. It's in fact being embraced by many people. The russians are sack of ####, but they aren't stupid. They know it's working and it is they who don't have to fire a single shot at us.
Having your democratic institutions eaten alive internally is frankly much more dangerous than any kind of shooting match that could happen. Because we allow it to happen. We laugh at russia because their army is a "paper tiger", yet I believe it is our side that is the paper tiger. All the best planes, tanks, missiles we supposedly have on the ready mean SFA when you have a country like the US ready to vote back in the orange goof who will do much more damage to the US than any kind of nuke could. It's already happened in Slovakia, Netherlands and Hungary. Austria is on it's way. Just wait if/when the US elects Trump again.
I couldn't care less about russia losing a millions tanks or missiles and people saying how we are now safer because they have less equipment. As long as Western countries pretend they are safe and plug their ears when faced with russian information wars, we are in a very dangerous situation because nobody here acts on it. Russian neckbeards will be our undoing at this rate.