(February 20, 2025 at 4:28 am)Belacqua Wrote:(February 19, 2025 at 9:46 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: So this debate must be had somehow. But if all you want to do is “America first” Why do you need such an enormous military machine in the first place?
I suspect that Trump has never read War and Peace, but Putin probably has. I don't know anything about military strategy, so I was surprised by the story. Tolstoy's characters are fictional, but apparently the war he describes is historically pretty accurate.
When Napoleon invades Russia, the aristocratic Russian officers are eager to make a glorious attack. Of course they are all slaughtered immediately. This leaves the army under the command of a fat old general who has seen it all. His strategy is to do as little as possible, retreat a lot, and let time and numbers work for him. Eventually he is woken up from his afternoon nap to be told that Napoleon has admitted defeat and left Russia.
So we all know that Putin is stupid crazy super-evil Satan double-Hitler, but he's about to get everything he wanted. Despite being completely out of soldiers and equipped with inferior equipment (so I'm told) he's won. And Zelensky isn't invited to the grown-ups' table.
I just farted. This is as close as I can get to giving a shit about your hideously ignorant analysis.
Boru
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