Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "DW News"
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The problems with Russia are its geography and demographics. Russia has suffered many major brain drains since 1914:
1. The Great War 1.7 million casualties
2. Bolshevik Revolution (persecuted scientists who didn’t accept Marxism, relocated millions of people, causing mass deaths, as well as executions)
3. Russian Civil War caused 7-12 million casualties
4. Holodomor in Ukraine was anywhere from 9-20 million. Mass graves with destroyed records as Soviet policy prevents us from knowing how many for sure.
5. Dekulakization involved liquidation, deportation, and forced labor camps for 1.5 million of Russia’s greatest farmers.
6. Then The Great Patriotic War happened, and Russia lost anywhere from 26.6 million people on-up, many still missing to this day, 6 million buried still unidentified
7. Stalin’s mass executions
8. Khrushchev era collapse of Russian peasants to the cities, low birth rate began
9. Late 1980s-1990s collapse of Soviet Union and flight of Russian intelligentsia, engineers, scientists, professors, technicians
10. Ukraine conflicted from 1914-present
Reasonable people have been systematically purged from Russia for over 100 years, whether by foreign wars or domestic policies and extremely bad leadership. This is the plight of Russia.
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@АлександрКуницын-и6к The US bailed out Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan in the 1990s with Nunn-Lugar. American companies moved in, German companies moved in, and those products ands services were well-received.
Nobody wanted to extinguish Russia, especially not in the West. There were attention-deficit hopefuls in Washington DC and Europe who kept talking about the peace dividend, but Eastern Europeans knew history would repeat itself, so they begged to join NATO.
The US, Berlin, and London would have preferred to see an economically-strong Russia that isn’t belligerent, to help increase trade and international relations.
Russians don’t think this way though, because they’re always thinking about who will attack them next.
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@oconnor6456 40k soldiers with air support and artillery can easily take a city of 5 million. A much smaller force took a much larger city in 2003. You might have heard of it. The US forces amounted to 30,000, whereas Baghdad was over 8 million people with a 45,000 defenders.
You talk about “anyone with the slightest touch? in military education" without knowing basic recent facts of modern examples. I just happened to be in OIF1 in 2003, so I know a little bit about warfare, having studied it from the 1970s-present with a library and deployment history that far exceeds anything Russia has done.
So given your metrics, it makes it even more obvious that Putin was absolutely planning on taking Kiev, and failed miserably. After getting his face kicked in, he shifted over to Donbas to try to save face and gloss over the fact that thousands of vehicles have been lost, with over 10,000 soldiers KIA.
Diversions are a basic strategy that even the most incompetent generals have used in warfare. The ability to adapt and maintain logistics to the fight while letting competent leaders work in their space is what most armies never master. Russia has neither the competent commanders, the logistics, or the strategic planning and adaptability because of 6 major brain drains throughout its history since the Bolsheviks destroyed Russia from within.
Anyway, on the Eastern front in Ukraine, I see it differently, where Russian forces will be defending and losing ground. Now that the Ukrainians taste blood and see how incompetent and weak Russian forces are, they aren’t going to hold back.
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It would have been a great aircraft had it been designed and built in the West, using engines that work reliably and have long life, significant use of composites in the airframe, and avionics that were actually useful, driven from a cockpit that had the pilot in-mind. Visibility from the canopy would have been better as well. Drop the airframe weight with composites, use consistent templates for the skin panels (unlike Russian method of hand-drilling randomly), use smaller diameter F404 motors (35” vs RD-33 $1”) and resulting smaller profiled engine nacelles for better aerodynamics, acceleration, speed, and combat radius. Or you can just look at the Baby Hornet with twice the weapons stations. MiG-29 can only carry 6 AAMs. F/A-18A-D can carry 12 AAMs. F/A-18 is vastly-superior in the multi-role mission set capabilities since it has been developed for SEAD, strike, Anti-Ship, DCA, OCA, CAS, and FAC.
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