Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Ukraine Facing Defeat; US Sends 'Military Inspectors' to Ukraine" video.

The key military reason for being defeated in Vietnam was America didn't declare national mobilisation and call out the reserves to smother the enemy with numbers. And the key reason for not taking the aforementioned steps was the US fear of China intervening as it had in Korea.
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@jesan733 As far as the cost of the arms yes agreed, but other economic consequences are less obvious, such as what currency Russia gets paid in for its energy sold to China. Dollars are no good to Russia now. That means they are increasingly less useful to China. America was closer to both Russia and China than they were to each other during the Cold War. The background is that production of the West was two to three times its share of world population for a century starting about 1880, but that is now well on the way to reversing.
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I really cannot see the US army or airforce entering combat with the Russian army inside Ukraine. I agree that the American strategy is to proceed in 'boil a frog style', but with more and more effective arms supply, rather than joining in on the side of Ukraine. The Ukrainians can and will be given more and more devastatingly advanced firepower and real time targeting information the worse they are doing, and that is why Russia will be unable to get any momentum. In this war, Ukraine, Russia and America can all lose. China can't.
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@vladoparenzan3344 Calling out the reserves is something that could be done as in addition to a draft, and would be many millions
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