RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 4, 2022 at 3:00 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2022 at 3:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Russia no longer has the population required for this to be feasible. They have half our pop, and the same birth rates. Broadly speaking, no reference to the soviet union is accurate with respect to the russian state today.
As far as the bolt actions conscripts have been showing up with - garbage. There are many, many, perfectly wonderful rifles that are garbage on a modern battlefield no matter how much training the person has - or how little the other guy has. In fairness to russian planners...it's unclear that it would even matter if their infantry were competently equipped. It's all a bit difficult to swallow, really. This is the clown army that ran roughshod over syrians as the rest of the world watched.
As far as the bolt actions conscripts have been showing up with - garbage. There are many, many, perfectly wonderful rifles that are garbage on a modern battlefield no matter how much training the person has - or how little the other guy has. In fairness to russian planners...it's unclear that it would even matter if their infantry were competently equipped. It's all a bit difficult to swallow, really. This is the clown army that ran roughshod over syrians as the rest of the world watched.
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