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That will harm the tourism industry. Stupid!
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Next thing you know a bill will introduce free roaming Brahman Cows to San Francisco. In the unlikely even that Xi agrees to meet Biden he is going to be so confused when he steps off the plane -- am I in India? Did I get contagious dementia from Biden?
The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of two Israeli citizens and an Egyptian guide as a result of Alexandria in Egypt, and another Israeli was wounded.@DDgeopolitics
Looks like there was only one attack after all.
Comparable only in a small subset of capabilities. For example, many people don't realize it but European NATO's even ground component is way larger than the Russian one too. (~150 brigades vs ~60 brigades) The comparison becomes funny when you go to the aerial and naval domains. French nukes are enough to ruin Russia. Russia being slightly stronger than a large European country is a fair assessment.
Russia invest more on strategic weapons. France cannot gaurantee MAD with its stockpile and delivery system vs a vast country like Russia, nor could it on US. Russia could. The nuclear advantage way offsets active ground force(no reservists)
Now on to ground force, France is a major European nation. Russia has like over twice the ground troops. Slightly stronger than a European nation? Find me a single one that is anywhere close.
Europe will collapse if it even moblise 1/3 of what Russia is using. the real mobilization with logistics, construction and industrial included. I only mentioned moblise not prolong war with rotation. how many choppers in Europe even work in the field?. that is army tactical aviation.
If it was not Ukraine. ( A country that Russia want to integrate significant part of population) and wealthy Arabs dont consider Europe as there own private property this war would be fought very differently. When it is Arab property you cannot dump 20 to 30m people on them. There is reason Saudi and UAE participate in Europe migration conferences and Arabs organized so many gatherings of Arabs in Russia. French nukes are not parity. they havent demonstrated Slavo firing of SLBMs. and Russia is good in intercepting billistic trajectory. this all in hints.
No, the west was always completely onboard with genocide or at least ridiculously disproportionate "solutions".
Israel is primarily deterred by the threat of international sanctions and overall risk of Arabs constantly infiltrating in into a forever war. If Israel starts being unhinged, China will drop them, the Arab world will drop them, and that cuts them off from most of the world's economy, when they're already a fragile semi-economy dependent power to begin with.
In a slugging match, Israel should be superior still to the basic version of Hamas. But that does not necessarily mean a war will be over quickly. Russia is also conventionally superior to Ukraine.
Once you introduce other surrounding islamist groups, especially Hezbollah, things looks even less rosy. And then there's also Iran making moves.
All that assumes these actors are not getting additional foreign support. Hamas going from DJI to Mugin-5 and rpg-7v to rpg-29 or even HJ-12 is going to add a lot.
Israel does not (necessarily) have escalation dominance, especially not the further up the ladder they go. If they're not careful, they might well find themselves carved up by their neighbors, almost all of which they've occupied land from in the past.
Russia has large enough armed forces, for example in terms of airpower, to take on both the UK and France which are some of the most well equipped armies in Europe.
That is why you have to resort to these comparisons where you compare the whole of NATO in Eurasia vs Russia. But as shown in several conflicts, multinational armies seldom work together well. The idea you will just get the simple sum of its parts is, I think, far fetched.