Comments by "The SMR" (@SergyMilitaryRankings) on "HistoryLegends"
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@hrmpug1092 yes, I work with MSF or doctors without borders, I've treated civilians in Yemen whilst our camp was being shelled, I've worked in Syrian hospitals when the government was barraging the area with artillery and treated soldiers in south Sudan whilst our encampment was under fire from rebel groups, I myself have been injured by shrapnel in Syria, my face, I nearly lost my vision, it was very close to my eye.
Wounds from bullets, shrapnel and blasts from explosives, absolutely wreck the body, a high calibre rifle wound like a 5.56 or .308 can literally rip the flesh of the bones, I've seen a what must have been a .50 cal wound that looked like the person had a swallowed a grenade.
This film is incredibly accurate in its gore and how it shows the absolute fear and constant stress effects people, constantly thinking that at any point a shell or bullet can hit you destroys your mental well-being, I'm okay because I get to go back to my nice first world life, these people in war zones don't have that luxury.
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@sahulianhooligan7046 that's absolutely nonsense, I'm talking about the countries of the EU combined.
The EU combined is a major military power, it has massive manufacturing and economic capabilities, massive logistical abilities and large amounts of natural resources and military power, out of the 4 major military powers (US, EU, China and Russia) in military matters they have second most amount of aircraft Carriers, they have 4 aircraft Carriers and 4 helicopter carriers, they have the world's largest navy with most frigates, cruisers, anti mine ships, patrol vessels and more corvettes and Submarines than the US with around 20 destroyers, they have the world's second largest air force with 2nd most amount of fighters and interceptors, 3rd most amount of attack helicopters and 2nd special Type and attack type bombers, they have the world's largest land force with most amount of IFVs, 3rd most amount of tanks, 2nd most amount of self propelled and towed Artillery and 2nd most amount of MLRS systems and air defence batteries, they have the second largest standing army and reserves,
in logistics they have the largest amount of ports, 2nd most amount of roads, 2nt most amounts of railway, most amount of ports, 2nd most amount of waterways, 2nd largest labour force, world's largest merchant fleet, 3rd most amount of airports, 2nd in global manufacturingand have the second most amount of military bases overseas.
In economic abilities, they have the 3rd highest GDP nominal, 2nd highest GDP PPP, 2nd highest foreign and gold Reserves and second highest defence spending.
In natural resources, they have the 4th most out of the major 4, with oil, coal and liquid natural gas production and reserves being 4th most.
So no, Ukraine is not what the combined military of the EU is, not even close, no idea where you even get that idea
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@realSanti954 they had spent months training with NATO, they received over $270 billion in aid from Western countries and organisations since 2022, with around ~60% delivered up until july 2023 (~70% today). Broken down it looks like for 2022 to 2023
~$29,580,000,000 Equipment costs
~$15,560,000,000 Munitions costs
~$769,200,000 Small arms costs
~$105,000,000,000 Logistics costs
A lot of people don't realise how much logistics costs, people think you can just send equipment and boom there you go, because in reality it's the thing that costs the most. There's fuel costs, maintenance costs, spare parts costs, systems testing costs, combat testing costs, ammunition costs, crew training costs, mechanics/engineer training costs and transportation costs and then you have to pay the crews, mechanics, drivers and engineers for the operations.
Logistics is what takes up the biggest chunk, for example the Iraq war estimated to have cost over a trillion dollars yet the actual dollar value of the equipment and Munitions used probably barely made half, it's running, maintaining and operating the equipment that costs money.
Up till june 2023 before they launched their counter offensive they had received months of training with NATO equipment, up to ~70,000 soldiers trained to NATO standards, they received nearly 400 NATO air defence systems, hundreds of NATO anti aircraft guns and over 2,000 NATO manpads (including thousands of others) to help them punch a hole in Russia air superiority to get some momentum. They received tens of thousands of NATO ATGMs and nearly 500 NATO standard tanks with 400 ex soviet ones and Thousands of NATO IFVs, APCs, EW systems, radars, counter batteries SPAGs, artillery Guns etc. And dozens of aircraft including attack helicopters and fighter jets along with just over a million shells of artillery and tens of thousands of guided rockets, hundreds of missiles to hundreds of thousands of unguided rockets to hundreds of thousands of mines and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition and nearly half a million NATO small arms.
Remember a lot of this was top stuff or at minimum frontline use in NATO countries. M1A1SA Abrams, M-55S, Leopard 2A6, Leopard 2A4, Leopard 1A5 DK-1, PT-91, Challenger 2, T-72 Avenger, AMX-10RCR, CV90MK-II, CAESAR, PzH-2000, M109A6, Krab, Zuzana, DANAM1, Archer, HIMARS, M270B1, MARS II, RM-70V, RBS-56B, TOW-2A, Javelin E, Harpoon, Hellfire, RIM-7M, Brimstone, Moruš, FFAR, Hydra 70, AASM Hammer, AGM-88 HARM, Storm Shadow, Stringer E, Stinger C, M777A2, RBS-70MK2, Piorun, Patriot PAC-3, SAMP/T, NASAMS-2, IRIS-T SLM, Crotale NG, Bayraktar TB2, Mi-171Sh, MiG-29AS, Akeron MP, MILAN-3ER, Rosomak, M2A2-ODS-SA Bradley, Stryker, AN/TWQ-1, AN/TPQ-53, AN/MPQ-50, AN/TPQ-49, AN/TPQ-48, AN/TPQ-36, TRML, Ground Master 200, Giraffe 75, AGM-88 HARM, COBRA, SQUIRE, ARTHUR, MAMBA etc. Is all minimum frontline NATO equipment and practically every single one has been destroyed at least once.
Their counter offensive was to split the Russian army and capture ~44,000km² out of around ~100,000km² it was to liberate Crimea and prove to the world just how superior Western weapons were.
It was a colossal failure, ~46 billion in military supplies, ~100 billion in logistics and financial costs, months of training, access to the best intelligence NATO has, battle plans coordinated with top NATO commanders and in nearly 5 months of fighting it only caught less than ~400km² or around less than 1% of their target. They couldn't even breach the 2/5 defensive line and spent 3 months fighting for a single street village which by the way was taken back by Russia at the start of 2024. All the hype and Ukraine still lost ~678 km² in 2023 overall despite their offensive. For context Russia captured more territory in February to march 2024 alone, it shows how utterly pointless aid is and how even at Ukraines strongest they can't do anything.
The funniest thing was all the western think tanks and media groups that said western weapons would be too good for Russia to then saying that it was all old. The cope is real. It's also funny because Ukrainians themselves have criticised NATO training. A big problem with NATO Doctrine is that it solely relies on air supremacy, air supremacy is easy when you are facing a country that uses obsolete SAMs and fighter jets.
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