(September 22, 2022 at 3:19 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 22, 2022 at 12:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Their weapons suck, as does their military. Unless they are just going to surrender outright, what's the alternative to retooling?
Their weapons aren't great, and of course many of them are indeed outdated. But I think they're pretty capable of developing some very high-tech stuff if they could find the funding, which has been the main thing hamstringing the Russian military for the last three decades. They didn't need a war to develop the S-500 or the Kalibr cruise missile, among other programs, for instance.
Well, it looks like Russia is going to lose this one, unless they use nuclear weapons. Over the last few weeks Ukraine has been steam-rolling over them. Who's to say that some political border on some map is going to stop them? Why not just drive their tank columns to Moscow to arrest Putin & Friends on the spot?
