The guy who coined the term Gerasimov Doctrine said he regretted it because it's not like Gerasimov created a masterplan for warfare.
It's just denying that you're doing what you're quite obviously doing, paying troll farms to shill for might trad christian Puccia and look at how BASED people like Motorola and Givi are, those Russian soldiers captured by the hoholi were just lost during exercises and crossed the border by accident, when your military vets call it quits offer them higher pay through Wagner and use them as deniable ops even though everyone knows you're behind it all.
The hoholi says we attacked, but they're clearly on the CIA payroll. Anon, you distrust the CIA. It's all State Department backed coups. Remember the 6 gorillion assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. HATO biolabs.
So, TLDR: do everything you can possibly can to harass your enemies within the limits of keeping a thin veneer of plausible deniability.
Less of a new genius masterplan, more about brash mentality. To be fair, some parts of that ultimately work because the unfortunate fact is that we in west aren’t really willing up to gear up against threats in time, which gives our enemies false confidence that they could win an actual war. Propaganda war and disruptions aren’t enough to pivot Russia to a victory in a direct conventional war against NATO, but fomenting FUD and apathy gives them political wiggle room to get away with stuff that they shouldn’t get away with. And also unfortunately, that makes a real war more likely in the future.
It really is a pragmatic acceptance that Russia could not go head to head with its opponents, so basically do as much as you can while getting away with it. I'd go as far as saying as it's the most concrete example of 4th generation warfare, but I think William S. Lind is a nutjob so I won't.
In retrospective it's impressive how much ISIS and Syria managed to hog the spotlight, if greater attention was paid to the Donbas war 2014-2015 it would be obvious what kind of game was being played.
>so basically do as much as you can while getting away with it
I generally think that the most dangerous thing that Russians realized is how nobody in west really wants a war, and that gives them a lot of room to get away with all sorts of dirty shit. They might yap endlessly about NATO aggression in their propaganda, but in reality they know that it’s the opposite and *that* is what gives them the ambition and means to make plays like they have done, they keep pushing the boundaries far because they know they can do it without irreversible consequences.
So, TLDR: do everything you can possibly can to harass your enemies within the limits of keeping a thin veneer of plausible deniability.
Less of a new genius masterplan, more about brash mentality. To be fair, some parts of that ultimately work because the unfortunate fact is that we in west aren’t really willing up to gear up against threats in time, which gives our enemies false confidence that they could win an actual war. Propaganda war and disruptions aren’t enough to pivot Russia to a victory in a direct conventional war against NATO, but fomenting FUD and apathy gives them political wiggle room to get away with stuff that they shouldn’t get away with. And also unfortunately, that makes a real war more likely in the future.
A big point is to create dissent through shills, propaganda and bribes within western countries, so that not only there's no unified front among them, but even inside specific countries there's no unity of important issues.
Fortify your strategy with as much top-heavy bureaucracy and unverified static assumptions as possible with no backup. Your glorious plan will never fall apart on contact with the enemy.
>Embezzle enough hardware and end-run around literally still fricking Soviet ideologue die-hards First Strike bullshit predicate don Kinzhal Hyper-Sneedics that don't even work, just like everything else. >such monumental fire sale sedition is too embarrassing to not keep you alive just to maintain appearances.
The trick is that when you sign up for the Gerasimov Doctrine and they make you go to the daily seminar, pay a few bucks to Shoigu to pull the fire alarm about 5 minutes in before he starts talking about BTG's and then you can just piss off into the resort where he can't find you to talk about
Just don't make the rookie mistake of talking to Shoigu about wood
I assume there's long section about why the mercenary group your government runs that is staffed entirely by violent subhumans should be denied support and ammunition at every given opportunity.
I've been studying the Gerasimov Doctrine™ for several years and I've never been happier or more productive. I've already reached ON level III (Operating Knower) which has helped me remove my reactive mind, quit drugs, and go exterior. Like I realize people have heard a lot of thing about it, but it might not be way you think. It might be something much more -- and for many people to discover. And the numbers are constantly growing.
I believe that he’s alive, but he sure as frick had some health issues because there’s no explanation on why he otherwise has been so invisible. Doesn’t even make sense as any kind of 4D chess, and let’s be honest, at this point we can be pretty sure that Russia isn’t really capable of 4D chess and if something they do looks bad for them, it absolutely is bad for them.
He definitely has health issues, there’s be no reason to keep him from sight otherwise. So they can prop him up on drugs to do the odd propaganda shot, but you probably won’t see him doing anything more extensive in front of camera. I wonder if he’ll show up for Victory Day?
61 billion to Ukraine, Anon.
Not even China thinks Russia can win and they've started managing expectations and having their political experts (party mouthpieces) start saying they knew all along Russia couldn't win.
It's unironically ogre.
trade with Russia is like 1/10th of what it is with the US and Europe for China, a lot of sober minded Chinese technocrats have been arguing for years that they need to cut Russia loose. China does share interest with Russia in destabilizing the Western international economic system but they would ideally have wanted to wait a few decades more so their political corruption into Europe would have had more time to mature, letting them split the EU and US, and their economic projects throughout Eurasia and Africa and South America would have had more time to cook and ensure the rest of the world is more amenable to China. Russia needs to do it now because Putin is an egotist who lost the plot is on fuel messianic mission mode while the bottom is falling out of the Russian demography, they desperately need to steal and brainwash Ukrainians to maintain the population needed to run a war economy and sustain a campaign into the old USSR.
of course Chinese demographics are also a massive impending problem and COVID and Xi's moronation happened at the perfect time to frick over the Made in China 2025 plan and make the middle income trap a very real outcome for the country which will be utterly ruinous for their finances in the medium term as the population increasingly ages out of work. Russia's overt attempts to undermine international stability have also fricked over a lot of Belt and Road initiatives, which represent billions of dollars, tens of thousands of man hours, and decades of planning, though it has also accelerated Chinese influence in Central Asia and COULD be a huge opportunity to earn brownie points with the West and defuse tensions if they were willing to half-assedly play tard wrangler like they do with North Korea. might be hard though since the Kremlin is unironically unhinged enough to still imagine themselves the senior partner in the relationship as if it was still the 1950s and China didn't have 10 times as many people and money
the Russian plan to destabilize western countries by installing fifth columnists is genuinely moronic because it's entirely dependent on them not doing something drastically dumb like a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Even if it was allowed decades to metastasize it would only have been people shilling Russia as a stable partner and counterbalance to China which would have gone away immediately upon them attacking. Like at least China is realpolit minded enough to just pay people to do things that damage the US and increase Chinese influence over domestic US policy and not do something that would be instant chemo.
If the technocrats in Beijing have any sense they'll recognise that Russia may have fricked up all their best laid plans but it also presents fantastic new opportunities. >Help Ukraine win >make Russia suffer a spectacular L >at the same time nurture high-levels of internal dissent, so the loss breaks the nation >Russia balkanizes, civil war split several ways >secretly make an agreement with Europe and the Burgers to swoop in and neutralize Russian nuclear weapons before one of the internal factions can use them >get good boy points from the West for assisting with nuclear arms control >in exchange the Western powers are now happy to overlook you annexing eastern Siberia >access to a decent amout of mineral and fossil fuel resources means China can stop worrying so much about the Pacific, no more need to throw so much money into the military and an unwinnable future war >also get to swallow most of Central Asia into sphere of influence >the remainder of Russian territory eventually becomes several different nations under EU/US/NATO influence, with the worst aspects of Russian "culture" slowly being eradicated
Peace on Earth. Not even joking, Russia is a huge and underutilized area of land that is totally wasted on being Russia. Split all that lebensraum between the two major power blocs (West and China) and you'd have peace for the next century at least.
Your idea sounds good. Which means it will never happen.
trade with Russia is like 1/10th of what it is with the US and Europe for China, a lot of sober minded Chinese technocrats have been arguing for years that they need to cut Russia loose. China does share interest with Russia in destabilizing the Western international economic system but they would ideally have wanted to wait a few decades more so their political corruption into Europe would have had more time to mature, letting them split the EU and US, and their economic projects throughout Eurasia and Africa and South America would have had more time to cook and ensure the rest of the world is more amenable to China. Russia needs to do it now because Putin is an egotist who lost the plot is on fuel messianic mission mode while the bottom is falling out of the Russian demography, they desperately need to steal and brainwash Ukrainians to maintain the population needed to run a war economy and sustain a campaign into the old USSR.
of course Chinese demographics are also a massive impending problem and COVID and Xi's moronation happened at the perfect time to frick over the Made in China 2025 plan and make the middle income trap a very real outcome for the country which will be utterly ruinous for their finances in the medium term as the population increasingly ages out of work. Russia's overt attempts to undermine international stability have also fricked over a lot of Belt and Road initiatives, which represent billions of dollars, tens of thousands of man hours, and decades of planning, though it has also accelerated Chinese influence in Central Asia and COULD be a huge opportunity to earn brownie points with the West and defuse tensions if they were willing to half-assedly play tard wrangler like they do with North Korea. might be hard though since the Kremlin is unironically unhinged enough to still imagine themselves the senior partner in the relationship as if it was still the 1950s and China didn't have 10 times as many people and money
Hey lucky 7's,
Do you know of a one stop shop for seeing what the New Silk Road has accomplished?
Everyone says "a whole lot of nothing" but there's gotta at least be some big, disconnected stretches of pavement. Maybe a few artificial valleys cut across hills?
When people say "accomplished nothing" I'm guessing the local Elites keep playing coy, and drag out the work. That this is what prevents the connection of sections.
Yes I've already watched Empire of Dust. Twice, in fact. Five years apart.
china doesn't have enough people for their hinterlands much less the entire russian steppes and they would never tolerate even the potential of a rouge nuclear state on the promise of nations they are vaugely hostile with and have spend trillions destabilizing themselves.
China has literally picked up the entirety of russias mil requirements. All the bullshit they need to run, chinkland makes and sends to them for basically free.
Nah. If they seriously think they might have to face a U.S. blockade or even just a major sanction regime (ie if they’re actually planning on taking Taiwan soon) then they NEED Russian energy and food. They’re also making a killing on buying cheap Russian energy. Cutting loose Russia only makes sense for them if:
1. They’re giving up on Taiwan, and
2. They get a good deal for doing so from the U.S. and Europe.
idk about the food question for the Chinese but Russia's TOTAL oil production can't even keep up with China's demand. Russia can only produce 11.2 million barrels daily, whereas China consumes 14.3 million barrels every day.
HYPOTHETICALLY, in a war scenario where the US is blocking China off from the MENA's oil supply, China could get all of its oil needs met entirely by land-based pipelines and domestic oil production. But this would require China to receive the vast majority of Russia's entire oil production and basically all of Kazakhstan's oil production (which is just shy of 2 million barrels daily). Both these countries have oil pipelines servicing China, but they certainly cannot transport enough oil to support Chinese demand. Kazakhstan for example only exported 74,600 barrels to China daily, which is a comically tiny amount given Chinese demand. This "land-based oil only" wartime scenario would also require China's pipelines and offshore oil production facilities to stay intact, which is most likely not happening in a war against naval powers with advanced air forces, especially with the advent of a new era of strategic bombing using super-long range expendable munitions
the problem is that it's not just impossible for the Chinese to stop using maritime supply lines to get their oil, it's that China needs free and fair international trade backed by US security guarantees to get their oil.
It was a win win scenario for them >russia tests the waters, they learn vicariously
Either way they get something out of it at no inherent risk to themselves
Russia is not suiciding though? They are getting stronger (with China's help too), though that might change if Ukraine keeps bombing their oil refineries.
Russia is not suiciding though? They are getting stronger (with China's help too), though that might change if Ukraine keeps bombing their oil refineries.
How? The image they had projected as a strong country has been shattered. Their economy seems to be shit, standards of living suck, and everyone is no longer afraid of you just disgusted and annoyed. In what way is Russia stronger?
Holy shit, not this cope again. They mobilized lile 300K and also recruited about the same number. This means they lost like half a million men if there is only a 15% increase from the initial 200k.
I was told ukriane is demilitarizing Russia for the US at a discount rate but it turns out it's not true. Russian army is at its strongest in decades.
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Biggest is not the same as strongest.
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>Russian army is at its strongest in decades.
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By decades they mean the 90s and the 1st Chechen war where the Russian Army was absolutely atrocious.
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You must be incredibly stupid, or ESL. I'll assume the latter.
In the BI headline "biggest" refers to the size of the military in terms of headcount. So Russia have recruited or mobilised 15% more people than they had at the start of the war. This is typical for nations fighting a war. Germany had more soldiers a couple of years into WW2. than at the beginning despite suffering many casualties.
The Kyiv post headline also states a fact, that of the original invasion force, Russia has had 87% of headcount killed or injured. Also the modernisation of the military has been set back 18 years, due to losses of critical equipment and troops.
>post one article talking about modernisation >another talking about size
It must be hell being this ESL, like the whole world is in on a joke you can't understand
That doctrine being... what, exactly?
die in an explosion and never be seen again
>That doctrine being... what, exactly?
Everyone will discover something for themselves. Similarly as from the Bible
More meat. The cube will feast!
I miss the mobikkube
rebranded vatnik union doctrine. That is poor mans version of it since they dont have not as much meat and metal to replicate it
The guy who coined the term Gerasimov Doctrine said he regretted it because it's not like Gerasimov created a masterplan for warfare.
It's just denying that you're doing what you're quite obviously doing, paying troll farms to shill for might trad christian Puccia and look at how BASED people like Motorola and Givi are, those Russian soldiers captured by the hoholi were just lost during exercises and crossed the border by accident, when your military vets call it quits offer them higher pay through Wagner and use them as deniable ops even though everyone knows you're behind it all.
The hoholi says we attacked, but they're clearly on the CIA payroll. Anon, you distrust the CIA. It's all State Department backed coups. Remember the 6 gorillion assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. HATO biolabs.
My name is Alex Smirnowff from St. Pete's county and I am energized by this post, I reckon.
So, TLDR: do everything you can possibly can to harass your enemies within the limits of keeping a thin veneer of plausible deniability.
Less of a new genius masterplan, more about brash mentality. To be fair, some parts of that ultimately work because the unfortunate fact is that we in west aren’t really willing up to gear up against threats in time, which gives our enemies false confidence that they could win an actual war. Propaganda war and disruptions aren’t enough to pivot Russia to a victory in a direct conventional war against NATO, but fomenting FUD and apathy gives them political wiggle room to get away with stuff that they shouldn’t get away with. And also unfortunately, that makes a real war more likely in the future.
It really is a pragmatic acceptance that Russia could not go head to head with its opponents, so basically do as much as you can while getting away with it. I'd go as far as saying as it's the most concrete example of 4th generation warfare, but I think William S. Lind is a nutjob so I won't.
In retrospective it's impressive how much ISIS and Syria managed to hog the spotlight, if greater attention was paid to the Donbas war 2014-2015 it would be obvious what kind of game was being played.
>so basically do as much as you can while getting away with it
I generally think that the most dangerous thing that Russians realized is how nobody in west really wants a war, and that gives them a lot of room to get away with all sorts of dirty shit. They might yap endlessly about NATO aggression in their propaganda, but in reality they know that it’s the opposite and *that* is what gives them the ambition and means to make plays like they have done, they keep pushing the boundaries far because they know they can do it without irreversible consequences.
Well said.
So frickin tired of vatshit.
A big point is to create dissent through shills, propaganda and bribes within western countries, so that not only there's no unified front among them, but even inside specific countries there's no unity of important issues.
It's a meme, it's basically "lie alot" with extra lingo.
Fortify your strategy with as much top-heavy bureaucracy and unverified static assumptions as possible with no backup. Your glorious plan will never fall apart on contact with the enemy.
"Use the Soviet playbook...without any of the political/intelligence cunning or the support of a pact that follows your orders."
"Use the soviet playbook... against Ukraine and without Ukraine"
ruh-roh!
it's a whole lot of buttfricking
>Embezzle enough hardware and end-run around literally still fricking Soviet ideologue die-hards First Strike bullshit predicate don Kinzhal Hyper-Sneedics that don't even work, just like everything else.
>such monumental fire sale sedition is too embarrassing to not keep you alive just to maintain appearances.
The trick is that when you sign up for the Gerasimov Doctrine and they make you go to the daily seminar, pay a few bucks to Shoigu to pull the fire alarm about 5 minutes in before he starts talking about BTG's and then you can just piss off into the resort where he can't find you to talk about
Just don't make the rookie mistake of talking to Shoigu about wood
its about making this face as often as possible
He is the hero that will lead the Russian Army to its ultimate victory
>That doctrine being... what, exactly?
dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed
incompetence that encourages infighting
This guy has a doctrine?
The eggs will be in the ass, all will be counted, and eyebrows WILL be raised
egg has moved out of the ass under its own power
yolks are working...........
The art of blyatkrieg
I assume there's long section about why the mercenary group your government runs that is staffed entirely by violent subhumans should be denied support and ammunition at every given opportunity.
I've been studying the Gerasimov Doctrine™ for several years and I've never been happier or more productive. I've already reached ON level III (Operating Knower) which has helped me remove my reactive mind, quit drugs, and go exterior. Like I realize people have heard a lot of thing about it, but it might not be way you think. It might be something much more -- and for many people to discover. And the numbers are constantly growing.
Assuredly, kerbango is a wonder.
>ON level III
I'd rather be an RN if ya know what I'm saying
Am I right bois?!?
When was the last time we saw him?
He showed up to vote for Putin but he had a bit of a limp.
%3D
Stunning and brave
But is this filmed THIS year? I see no dates. I just see 'they voted'.
Yeah. There's date on the poster behind them when they leave to cast the vote.
I believe that he’s alive, but he sure as frick had some health issues because there’s no explanation on why he otherwise has been so invisible. Doesn’t even make sense as any kind of 4D chess, and let’s be honest, at this point we can be pretty sure that Russia isn’t really capable of 4D chess and if something they do looks bad for them, it absolutely is bad for them.
He definitely has health issues, there’s be no reason to keep him from sight otherwise. So they can prop him up on drugs to do the odd propaganda shot, but you probably won’t see him doing anything more extensive in front of camera. I wonder if he’ll show up for Victory Day?
>Victory Day?
he has the look of someone who stuffs random household objects up his ass
Please no shaming. This is a family friendly weapons board.
I have, and it has opened my eyes
So a doctrine of spamming land mines, cannon fodder, and golf carts? I could have asked some thirdie and he could have come up with the same thing
Day 784 of the 3 day SMO status?
61 billion to Ukraine, Anon.
Not even China thinks Russia can win and they've started managing expectations and having their political experts (party mouthpieces) start saying they knew all along Russia couldn't win.
It's unironically ogre.
trade with Russia is like 1/10th of what it is with the US and Europe for China, a lot of sober minded Chinese technocrats have been arguing for years that they need to cut Russia loose. China does share interest with Russia in destabilizing the Western international economic system but they would ideally have wanted to wait a few decades more so their political corruption into Europe would have had more time to mature, letting them split the EU and US, and their economic projects throughout Eurasia and Africa and South America would have had more time to cook and ensure the rest of the world is more amenable to China. Russia needs to do it now because Putin is an egotist who lost the plot is on fuel messianic mission mode while the bottom is falling out of the Russian demography, they desperately need to steal and brainwash Ukrainians to maintain the population needed to run a war economy and sustain a campaign into the old USSR.
of course Chinese demographics are also a massive impending problem and COVID and Xi's moronation happened at the perfect time to frick over the Made in China 2025 plan and make the middle income trap a very real outcome for the country which will be utterly ruinous for their finances in the medium term as the population increasingly ages out of work. Russia's overt attempts to undermine international stability have also fricked over a lot of Belt and Road initiatives, which represent billions of dollars, tens of thousands of man hours, and decades of planning, though it has also accelerated Chinese influence in Central Asia and COULD be a huge opportunity to earn brownie points with the West and defuse tensions if they were willing to half-assedly play tard wrangler like they do with North Korea. might be hard though since the Kremlin is unironically unhinged enough to still imagine themselves the senior partner in the relationship as if it was still the 1950s and China didn't have 10 times as many people and money
the Russian plan to destabilize western countries by installing fifth columnists is genuinely moronic because it's entirely dependent on them not doing something drastically dumb like a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Even if it was allowed decades to metastasize it would only have been people shilling Russia as a stable partner and counterbalance to China which would have gone away immediately upon them attacking. Like at least China is realpolit minded enough to just pay people to do things that damage the US and increase Chinese influence over domestic US policy and not do something that would be instant chemo.
If the technocrats in Beijing have any sense they'll recognise that Russia may have fricked up all their best laid plans but it also presents fantastic new opportunities.
>Help Ukraine win
>make Russia suffer a spectacular L
>at the same time nurture high-levels of internal dissent, so the loss breaks the nation
>Russia balkanizes, civil war split several ways
>secretly make an agreement with Europe and the Burgers to swoop in and neutralize Russian nuclear weapons before one of the internal factions can use them
>get good boy points from the West for assisting with nuclear arms control
>in exchange the Western powers are now happy to overlook you annexing eastern Siberia
>access to a decent amout of mineral and fossil fuel resources means China can stop worrying so much about the Pacific, no more need to throw so much money into the military and an unwinnable future war
>also get to swallow most of Central Asia into sphere of influence
>the remainder of Russian territory eventually becomes several different nations under EU/US/NATO influence, with the worst aspects of Russian "culture" slowly being eradicated
Peace on Earth. Not even joking, Russia is a huge and underutilized area of land that is totally wasted on being Russia. Split all that lebensraum between the two major power blocs (West and China) and you'd have peace for the next century at least.
Your idea sounds good. Which means it will never happen.
Hey lucky 7's,
Do you know of a one stop shop for seeing what the New Silk Road has accomplished?
Everyone says "a whole lot of nothing" but there's gotta at least be some big, disconnected stretches of pavement. Maybe a few artificial valleys cut across hills?
When people say "accomplished nothing" I'm guessing the local Elites keep playing coy, and drag out the work. That this is what prevents the connection of sections.
Yes I've already watched Empire of Dust. Twice, in fact. Five years apart.
china doesn't have enough people for their hinterlands much less the entire russian steppes and they would never tolerate even the potential of a rouge nuclear state on the promise of nations they are vaugely hostile with and have spend trillions destabilizing themselves.
but winnie want more honey
China has literally picked up the entirety of russias mil requirements. All the bullshit they need to run, chinkland makes and sends to them for basically free.
Nah. If they seriously think they might have to face a U.S. blockade or even just a major sanction regime (ie if they’re actually planning on taking Taiwan soon) then they NEED Russian energy and food. They’re also making a killing on buying cheap Russian energy. Cutting loose Russia only makes sense for them if:
1. They’re giving up on Taiwan, and
2. They get a good deal for doing so from the U.S. and Europe.
idk about the food question for the Chinese but Russia's TOTAL oil production can't even keep up with China's demand. Russia can only produce 11.2 million barrels daily, whereas China consumes 14.3 million barrels every day.
HYPOTHETICALLY, in a war scenario where the US is blocking China off from the MENA's oil supply, China could get all of its oil needs met entirely by land-based pipelines and domestic oil production. But this would require China to receive the vast majority of Russia's entire oil production and basically all of Kazakhstan's oil production (which is just shy of 2 million barrels daily). Both these countries have oil pipelines servicing China, but they certainly cannot transport enough oil to support Chinese demand. Kazakhstan for example only exported 74,600 barrels to China daily, which is a comically tiny amount given Chinese demand. This "land-based oil only" wartime scenario would also require China's pipelines and offshore oil production facilities to stay intact, which is most likely not happening in a war against naval powers with advanced air forces, especially with the advent of a new era of strategic bombing using super-long range expendable munitions
the problem is that it's not just impossible for the Chinese to stop using maritime supply lines to get their oil, it's that China needs free and fair international trade backed by US security guarantees to get their oil.
>saying they knew all along Russia couldn't win.
What if they unironically did and wanted Russia to suicide itself, so they could vassalize Russia?
It was a win win scenario for them
>russia tests the waters, they learn vicariously
Either way they get something out of it at no inherent risk to themselves
Russia is not suiciding though? They are getting stronger (with China's help too), though that might change if Ukraine keeps bombing their oil refineries.
If this is what you think getting stronger is, remind me to never go to the gym with you.
/k/ sure likes its rose-tinted glasses.
lmao off to /chug/ with thee
How? The image they had projected as a strong country has been shattered. Their economy seems to be shit, standards of living suck, and everyone is no longer afraid of you just disgusted and annoyed. In what way is Russia stronger?
>They are getting stronger
Correct. Even western MSM has changed its narrative and been reporting this evident reality recently.
Holy shit, not this cope again. They mobilized lile 300K and also recruited about the same number. This means they lost like half a million men if there is only a 15% increase from the initial 200k.
Anon those two headlines are not contradictory.
I was told ukriane is demilitarizing Russia for the US at a discount rate but it turns out it's not true. Russian army is at its strongest in decades.
Biggest is not the same as strongest.
>Russian army is at its strongest in decades.
By decades they mean the 90s and the 1st Chechen war where the Russian Army was absolutely atrocious.
You must be incredibly stupid, or ESL. I'll assume the latter.
In the BI headline "biggest" refers to the size of the military in terms of headcount. So Russia have recruited or mobilised 15% more people than they had at the start of the war. This is typical for nations fighting a war. Germany had more soldiers a couple of years into WW2. than at the beginning despite suffering many casualties.
The Kyiv post headline also states a fact, that of the original invasion force, Russia has had 87% of headcount killed or injured. Also the modernisation of the military has been set back 18 years, due to losses of critical equipment and troops.
You are welcome.
>post one article talking about modernisation
>another talking about size
It must be hell being this ESL, like the whole world is in on a joke you can't understand
you must be pretending to be moronic for all these sweet replies
you cannot expect to believe that you are really this fricking stupid
>Study the Gerasimov "Doctrine". And your view of many things will change.
Yes, you will become stupider in the process, just like him.