Russia’s own state media already admits to over 1m lost in Ukraine. I doubt most of their nukes work. More likely, NK invades SK while China invades Taiwan. The hollowness of the USA quickly becomes clear when the doors fall off of all the Boeing aircraft. The neodymium supplied FPV drone army of AliEx then comes knocking. The US is then cut off from all advanced chip foundry fab nodes.
Meanwhile, the enormous fleet of starlink satellites are already on the verge of Kessler syndrome according to a recent white paper stating they are less than 3 days way. Just targeting one of them will cut off all access to space for decades rendering ICBMs obsolete or high risk where they are very likely to be damaged and return to the region that launched them. Cutting off access to space is a superpower total war move.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Invades Poland with what? More drones?
F_State@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
The Poles have quietly been building one of the largest militaries on earth. They’re not trying to let themselves get conquered or partitioned again. I don’t think it would take much for them to go eagerly to war with a belligerent Russia. More likely Russian’s next conquest will be against small and vulnerable countries like Georgia or the Baltics if they can get NATO to crumble (or Trump goes to war against NATO over Greenland).
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Russia moving their nukes to Georgia is the most telling sign yet that they’re not serious. Our intercontinental ballistic missiles are marginally closer to you is not the brag they think it is. It means they’ve given up on military superiority and are now resulting to chest thumping in an attempt to intimidate, they wouldn’t do that if they still had a functional military.
So I’m reasonably confident that Poland is safe from Russian aggression.
I also can’t really see the US going to war in Greenland. It’s a wholly unpopular idea both with civilians but also with the US military who know that all it would result in is them losing a significant chunk of their forces to hypothermia since the US is very weak in cold weather combat. They already have a US air base in Greenland, controlling the rest of the country wouldn’t increase US national security and the only person who thinks it would is Trump.
Knightfox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look, I’m all for a prepared Europe, but this quote is a joke at best.
Poland has 300k troops (all numbers are active and reserve combined), Germany has 862k, France has 300,000k, Ukraine has ~2.2 million, China has 2.53 million, Russia has 3.57 million, the US has 2.8 million.
Poland might be building one of the largest European militaries, but they’re still 10x smaller than the belligerent players.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also the UK has a fancy new anti done laser which they’re quite excited to field test via any willing ally.
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Nice propaganda you got there lmao
Hubi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Since we’re already at the point of using riders on horseback, maybe it’ll be tricycles by 2027?
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Nah, you need both legs to turn the pedals on those
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dont forget Korean gooners!
Wait nm Xi has dibs that year
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On horseback
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Babushkas.
In ERA.