VComrade [he/him]

Quite incredible the extent to which Iran exposed the true futility of the US war machine.

Coral!

Even if there was no equipment shortage the entire Canadian military has less personnel than the NYPD.

Of course, it’s not like the US will need to physically invade anyway. Even the slightest escalation of economic tension would be enough to make the parasite government capitulate instantly and have Canadians screaming to be annexed. There’s nothing we love more than our comfortable position at the core of the empire.

And this is also ignoring the fact that Canada is, functionally speaking, an American state in all but name anyway

Ukraine and Ukrainians themselves aren’t a threat. But Ukraine is being used as a proxy by the west. And it is the west that is pushing for Ukraine to continue the war. And it is the west that is threatening Russia via Ukraine.

Mostly however, it is because it doesn’t as actually affect anything anymore, particularly those in the Russian oligarchy. It’s like the same reason we won’t stop fighting wars, they do not affect those in charge.

I assume you mean in terms of immediate physical harm? Because wars under capitalism are manifestations of infighting amongst the bourgeoisie. This war is only happening because of the effects Ukraine fully joining NATO would have had on the Russian bourgeoisie. Likewise, the western bourgeoisie is only interested in Ukraine because of the position of vulnerability it would immediately put the “axis of resistance” into.

The ruling classes are very much affected by competition and conflict.

Also “decision making centers” as I understand it has mostly been a veiled threat to the west. Because the real decision making centers are in London, Poland, Germany. And Russia is constantly doing this dance with the EU NATO that they’re becoming members to the conflict, they are members to the conflict, they’re totally legitimate targets and Russia wants to bomb them. But Russia isn’t willing to risk a wider war by bombing Rammstein airbase in Germany or Mi6 HQ in London though hitting either with an Oreshnik would assuredly seriously hamper the Ukrainian war by hampering intelligence supply, killing analysts and throwing their enemy into disarray. It’s just that the consequences leading from that of the west getting directly involved or otherwise upping the ante (giving Ukraine a nuke) doesn’t warrant that risk.

Hence the campaign of attrition. Russia said from the beginning it understands it is essentially at war with NATO and that it is prepared for the war to go on as long as needed. Russia knows the head of the snake isn’t in Ukraine which is why it said demilitarization is the name of the game. They’re just going to grind the fighting capacity of Ukraine to oblivion until Ukrainians themselves refuse to fight any more. Decapitation strikes on any meaningful command structures aren’t really an option.

RIP. Foreigners volunteering to fight for the most intolerant people on earth in a war set-up and initiated by their overlords in the name of self-defense and self-determination is the most lib brained thing ever.

I was gonna say, I’m pretty sure azov never actually disbanded they were just incorporated into the Ukrainian military.

Well said, comrade. That’s more or less what I was getting at, but you phrased it much better.

One form of concealment is to operate inside repurposed civilian buildings. A great deal of warfare takes place in or near urban areas or near industrial sites. To avoid producing too large an electronic, vehicle, or foot traffic signature, a single command post might be split among several locations but remain connected using commercial networks and tools.

This is hilarious. The hypocrisy of this will be lost on the libs tho.

It takes time and money to re-train an established war machine to adopt an entirely different core strategy. Something the west can’t afford. Given the lifespan of western political cycles, this isn’t something that a single term leader will be able to do.

Also, they are essentially saying they should start acting like the “terrorists” they are fighting. But you can’t act like an insurgency as a globe spanning hegemon. It’s just not feasible to continuously construct complex underground based in an aggressive manner. Nevermind that the actual insurgents are already familiar with subterranean infrastructure and combat which will quickly make this proposal null anyway.

You mean like the 60 F16’s NATO is collectively sending to Ukraine?

Uhhh have you forgotten about the last 4 years? It’s true the US is trying to worm its way out of supporting Ukraine now but let’s not forget the US is in the situation it is now against Iran because of its failure in Ukraine. The US exhausted its inventories of reserve vehicles and conventional artillery ammunition by donating them to Ukraine. If the US thought it could have made a difference against Russia by directly intervening, they would have.

Even Ukraine was, ultimately, supposed to isolate China by forcing regime change in Russia.