anon, the nukes are deterring nato just fine. if russia didn't have the nukes, the us would be all over it.        > even your tiny ass neighbors with zero military capabilities see you as such a laughing stock that they openly call for strikes on your territory. they're doing this to goad their overlord to strike russia and everyone knows they are a nonentity in any conflict so both russia and the us ignore them.        > i don't think you understand the gravity of just how utterly fucking incompetent the russian mod are, ok, talk specifics. what's been so incredibly awful? yes there have been plenty of mistakes and yes hindsight is 20/20 but in 2022 when the talks were going on everyone thought ukraine was going to sober up and cut a deal. why mobilise 600k just on the off chance that bojo comes by and screws up a genuinely generous offer for ukraine? for example.        > and the damage that they have done to themselves. again, what? have they executed a perfect campaign? no. but they're also fighting a war they never planned for - going up against nato weapons while being unable to do anything about nato surveillance despite having ample tools to do so.        > the russian response? nothing. always nothing. just sit still, and get your shit pushed in. anon, how flashy do you think attritting an army down to the nubs 3x appears? you want highway of death, you want ac-130 shelling kiev starbucks, you want tu-22ms dropping gravity bombs on lvov in formation, you want a cinematic victory, yeah? but that's going to kill a lot more russians and the one thing that marshal-to-be gerasimov has pushed along with putin, is low russian casualties so the average moscowite / peterburger feels 0 disruption to their life while broke ingush and tuvans can roll the dice and earn more than they would ever have done otherwise or come home in a box but have their families be looked after. this is the strat, it takes time & it appears to be working.
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