until this war, the Russians no doubt continued to believe Russia was superior to china in military technology and actual operational skill, such that even if china has something russia doesn’t, russia can more than make up for it from what they do have.
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it’s not called ethnocentrism. it is called mirror imagining.
Ethnocentrism is when you look around you and think everyone else is not as good as you. you see the difference between how your cultural tradition do things abs how other people’s cultural tradition do things, and you reflexively believe your culture’s way must be better because you implicitly believe your culture is better. so other people’s cultural wisdom is not worth learning.
mirror imagine is when you look around you, you see not other people but your own reflection looking back at you. you try to anticipate what other people will do by projecting what you would do onto others, because you can’t imagine others might have good reasons for wanting to do things differently from how you would do it.
During the cold war the US military culture produces a gem of wisdom: “Ivan isn’t dumb. he just does things differently”
Clearly since the end of the the US military had went one step beyond ethnocentrism. it no longer even believe it’s own military cultural is good enough to be worth learning.
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It is true. By the way, are you from Brazil? Correct?
It seems that some Poles want more than that: Kaliningrad
They could have bought them 6 months ago and had Chinese civilian operators. The current situation would be pretty much the perfect scenario for them. 90% of EAD suppressed, no airforce. Lots of high value ground targets. Piloted sorties or artillery is no substiute for that.
Russia seems to be like a grandparent who refuses to use a new smart phone and prefers using their flip phone.
This whole situation could have been prevented if Russia took advantage of the chaos of 2014 Euromaiden protest and invade Ukraine like back in Hungarian Revolution 1956
Georgia was formally invited to NATO in 2008 along with Ukraine. Georgia also had Russian-backed separatists problem, which lead to Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Later, Georgia's defacto recognition of South Ossetia independence with a ceasefire agreement help end the Georgia-South Ossetia war, but ending the war did not have begin the formal NATO membership process for Georgia... NATO didn't touch Georgia with a ten foot-pole even after ending war. There is no guarantee that succumbing to salami-slicing will result in NATO membership for Ukraine, particularly as Germany and France were strongly opposed to Ukraine after the Russia invasion of Georgia in 2008.
If full annexation is too costly or not feasible, then splitting Ukraine into a buffer state along the Dniper River, with Western Ukraine as a landlocked, de-militarized, failed state, and Eastern Ukraine as an independent puppet protectorate with pro-Kremlin leader. I personally prefer full annexation if possible, with Ukrainian republic within of Russia, like Tsarist-era. If NATO wants a shared border with Russia, atleast it's on Russia's terms along the Polish border, not on NATO's terms along Donbass border. This will guarantee ever lasting security for Russia for decades of even century.
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