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It isn't crazy to think in terms of what a country is capable of. This is the very reason that Russia totally ignores what we say about our missile shield deployment in Poland. They only look to what capability it gives us. These are lessons that other generations have learned. I hope we don't have to learn them, but the reality seems to be that once the generation that has experienced an authentic threat first hand passes away, the new generation doesn't quiet believe it can ever emerge until it does. Fortunately we have always had the luxury of geographic isolation.
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Glad my daughter got back
from the Ukraine last month. She said she would love to go back. I don't think so.
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In other ways a belligerent expansionist Russia is like a late 1930s Germany. Very well armed with neighbors who don't really believe it has aspirations beyond just a little real estate. With the US spread so thin, I think that Russia could once again, in very short order, take control of everything east of the Rhine, and perhaps beyond. We have troops stationed there, but not in nearly sufficient numbers. My guess is that we would fall back, perhaps to France, in the face of an advancing Russian Army, and hope that we could hold them while we mobilized the rest. I have no reason to doubt that a mobilized and fully deployed US military, which remains the most advanced in the world by some distance, could defeat any army in the world. I am particularly given to believe that air superiority would be established in fairly short order. The nuclear angle is interesting in that is some ways it may be that we are "post nuclear", that is, no one really thinks that anyone is going to use them (except maybe Israel). Again, I doubt very very much that any of this comes to pass, but much stranger and unlikely events have unfolded in the past. These developments are worth keeping an eye on.
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Good to know we agree about something.
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Can't argue with that.
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