Condolences to the Ukrainian community

[Richard]

Our military is led by poltroons who haven't been successful in war with the puniest of foes. Our naval commanders are whore-mongers, or they were until Fat Leonard was incarcerated.

We are kinda at war so it becomes sketchy territory discussing operational readiness outside of what is considered public knowledge,like billion dollar warships running into other ships in port,is public knowledge.

But you cannot run a military playing second fiddle to politicians and the public,spending more time on diversity training verses weapons training does not help.

Notice how all the videos you see so far are conventional low tech weapons, keep in mind Russia backed the takeover of Armenia in order to gain control in that region,they surrendered in 11 days,because it was a drone war,the only time ground forces were brought in was to mop up resistance.

In 2 day they completely eliminated Armenian tanks and heavy artillery strictly with drones.

Russia appears to be holding back their technology in reserve in case of our response,but that region is where we would shine,we do not do good in urban warfare.

Remember our military was based and built for the last 70 years specifically for a European war,we had to adapt to play in the sand and was kinda like a bull in a China shop.

Our air wing alone,with drones,by ourselves would flatten Russian forces in a matter of days without putting troops on the ground.

The UK has a very itchy trigger finger right now also.

Russia is a formidable force,but that would be our gamble,hit them quick and hard,send the message and give Putin room to back away,if he decides not to then it becomes sticky.

Remember though,there are 27 other countries with forces also on the ground,they would like some real combat experience also.

That is the picture that Putin is looking at also,it is what is referred to as an overwhelming force.

Thats two cards we are not playing for some reason,it’s almost like this is for show,those videos of the helicopters flying around the captured air base,they could have been taken out with a simple sniper rifle or any WW2 shoulder fired rocket,and they do not have any markings on them,which is against the Geneva convention.

It just seems really really strange,almost like it was staged.

We and everybody else has a force sitting there that can annihilate him in days,the one thing he is banking on,support from the US citizenry to keep the politicians from going to war,that is his ace card,without it he would not stand a chance against us and 27 other countries.

I think we should call his buff,he is not stupid,he knows we could wipe him out.

He would have never done this,if he thought he would have never been allowed to.

The Ukraine is an independent democratic controlled country that is under attack with no provocation,we have every justification to go in there and help them.

We did it in Panama,Iran,Iraq,Afghanistan,8 different nations in Africa,at least 3 in Latin America.

But we are scared to when it comes to the most strategic one in Europe is attacked,why?

[canuck]

Richard/Dr Strangelove/Foghorn Leghorn
To answer your last question: Nothing to worry about.

or… does it matter that Putin’s itchy fingers can inflict more damage than Boris Johnsonov’s.

With your military background and street smarts, why don’t you just find your way to Kiev and lend the Ukrainians a hand. You’re closer to your final outcome than when you were in the forces, and seem to relish the challenge.

In the spirit of your last question:
What's to stop you?