Like an obese old man with vascular issues having a massive heart attack while sitting on the toilet after downing one too many Big Macs. đ |
Russia could bomb them into oblivion with heavy bombers, they donât do it because they are afraid the West would get involved. |
DP no Russia canât. In fact Russia has been using its bomber force since the beginning of the conflict. Russia does not enter Ukraine airspace because they would be shot down. They stand off in Russia airspace and launch missiles. Oh and the Ukraine has nuclear weapons. Russia is a joke. |
Honest question: whatâs the benefit to the US? Military considerations or something? |
Russia doesnât use their heavy bombers/missiles on Ukraine, they could but donât. It sounds like you think Europe can defend itself w/o the US in NATO. I agree, fantastic, close the US bases in Europe and send all the troops/equipment home. WWll ended 75+years ago, why are still there given all their economic/military power that you cite ? The rest of the bases can be negotiated with the other countries. But, the more that are closed, the better. The US has been defending the world forever, let others step up. Weâll worry about the Western hemisphere, which includes Greenland. |
Really, maybe you should look at a map of the world. Concentrate on the Atlantic Ocean part. |
With climate change, the polar world is going to be very active. So that's Russia, China, Canada, the US with Alaska, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark and Greenland. The US could get whatever it wants with a cooperative approach with Canada and Scandinavia. But the US has chosen a very belligerent, imperialistic approach. Which will likely weaken America's position in the arctic in the end. Trump's position is profoundly stupid and will be very costly for American interests. |
This. Anyone who can't see that Trump's aggressive posturing and what he has done in Venezuela is a bad idea that weakens us in the long run is an idiot. |
No. Russia has lost more than 400 aircraft in this war, and an additional 350 or so helicopters. Ukraine too has its losses, which is why the F-16s and so on tend to only operate in western Ukraine to shoot down drones and missiles. Neither side is getting anywhere close to the line of contact. Anything in the air gets shot down. And Ukraine is very good at it. They do have Patriots and other systems to make Russian air power pretty useless except for long distance glide bombs. This war would be very different if one side had air dominance. But neither does. So we have this war of attrition. We should all be very grateful we have F-22s, F-35s, and stealth bombers so that American soldiers never have to fight this kind of war. |
Russia has cruise missiles that they are holding in reserve, they are unstoppable. But they are not using them for some reason. |
The Kalibr? Ukraine shoots down most of them, but not all. Regardless, Russia is not holding anything back - except nukes. What you see in Ukraine is what you get from Russia. This is total war for them. And Poland would defeat them in a week if Russia chose that course of action. |
EXACTLY. A return to might makes right unleashes chaos that will bite everyone around the globe, including us, in the a**. |
Well no s**t. Thanks for explaining that. đ |
If we can make it to this year's election.... |
The startlingly large number of uneducated, petty bullies we call fellow citizens, apparently. |