That isn't a loss since they were already gone and increasingly being radicalized. They were shelling Russian speakers and committing atrocities on Russian speakers in their own territory. This is like saying China should have just let the terrorists in Xinjiang go their own way. Any fool will see this is a bad proposition.
NATO started this by making a coup in Ukraine. And those other nations have already been annexed by the West and have been effectively de-industrialized and turned into Western client states. Did you know Poland used to make their own computers and TVs?
They assembled large civilian aircraft like the Il-86. All those facilities are closed. Only factories left are German factories where Poles work manufacturing German cars. As for Ukraine just this year they dismantled the last crane on the largest shipyard in Ukraine. You know the one which built the hull of what is now the Liaoning.
The Russian economy will suffer but the sanctions would come anyway.
The US has been sanctioning Russia since 2006 with Magnitski Act.
They have been sabotaging NordStream 2 pipeline for years.
The previous German government under Merkel was duplicitous.
They broke the deal they made with Yanukovych to make early elections in 2014 by sponsoring the Euromaidan coup with US.
The Germans pushed the closure of SouthStream pipeline project against South Eastern European country interests when it was already half built. Russians had to negotiate with Turks to reuse already laid pipeline for TurkStream. The large delays and changes vastly increased project cost as expensive pipe laying equipment was leased and had to sit there for a year or two doing nothing. Yet the Germans themselves built NordStream. After the SouthStream affair, Putin did not want to build more pipelines into Europe. Merkel convinced Putin to build NordStream 2 against his wishes guaranteeing it would be approved. We know how that turned out!
Russia completed the project at vast expense with delays because of US sanctions the EU and Germany made no efforts to counter. And then Germans, with the current government, did not approve the pipeline into service. The pipeline had been finished when last government was in power in December 2021. They didn't bother pushing for early approval either.
Right now the Head of German Intelligence services was in Lviv, Western Ukraine, the nest of Ukrainian Banderite neo-Nazi movement.
Putin asked the current German Chancellor at the security conference last week for Germany to give guarantee Ukraine wouldn't join NATO. No country can join NATO without unanimous approval from all NATO members. He was non-committal and said there were "no plans to let Ukraine join in the immediate future". While Russia had 150k troops on Ukraine's border.
Germans leaders helped cause this conflict. They cannot be trusted. The fact they just sent lethal aid to Ukraine, something they claim they don't do as policy to nations in conflict is even more telling. They are completely in the pocket of the US.
He is an idiot. I had been watching the increase of Russian ORBAT over the last 3 years with quite a lot of alarm.
They took out hundreds of T-72 tanks out of storage and upgraded them into T-72B3 and T-72B3M. They increased purchases of BMP-3 vehicles by several hundreds of units. They upgraded hundreds of vehicles to BTR-82A standard. They raised whole new divisions from the ground up that had been disbanded with the 2008 reforms. They moved back towards division structure from battalion structure.
With the 2008 reforms Russia cut its army size, disbanded the conscripts, and had 200.000 professional troops. Now it is 400.000 professional troops, and 200.000 conscripts.
They were getting ready for a possible conflict. Otherwise they would have waited for their new model systems to be in mass production. You know what. This isn't the Russian Army meant to fight a possible WW3. That army will have T-14 Armata, T-15 IFV, Kurganets 25 IFV, and Boomerang vehicle in many, many hundreds of units. T-14 for example will enter mass production this year.
Notice how they kept T-90 in reserve and BMP-3 was seen in pitifully small numbers. They didn't even bother use their upper echelon of troops. This is the mass built army they raised over the last 3 years. This is why people claim these are conscripts. But they aren't. They are professional troops with salaries to match. If he wanted he could just invade NATO next and roll over it. But that isn't his plan. It is just to push them to make negotiations on conventional troop reductions on Europe. But they are so stupid, they want to push him into an arms race. Except Russia is way ahead of Europe in terms of modern weapon systems development. Europe will thus send huge amounts of money to the US MIC. Which will be busy supplying weapons to Asia too.
Merkel's government, including Ursula von der Leyen when she was defense minister are responsible for letting the Luftwaffe rot. They did not fund upgrades of Eurofighter to Tranche 2 standard when the UK asked them to do it. Most Eurofighter aircraft don't work. They put all Leopard 2 tanks into storage, innoperational, and they are old models which can't hold a candle to refurbished T-72B3 tanks.
They have a 5th gen fighter program with France which was started late and won't be ready on time. So they will buy more US weapons.
France has had a long running advanced drone program which could be quickly put into production. Germany insisted it had to be a dual engine drone because they want it to be able to be used for monitoring civilian areas.
Russia has developed the Su-57 specifically to fight the F-22/F-35 family of fighters. It was developed after their specs were known.
Thanks to Western sanctions on MC-21 composite wing production, Russia massively ramped up their carbon composite fiber production, which previously was tiny just for Su-57 military aircraft production. The Su-57 is still not in Su-57M status so it won't enter mass production yet. But it is way, way ahead of European 5th generation fighter development. And if they need to they can mass produce Su-57 in emergency production.
Those troops should be totally surrounded as we speak.
Yeah it is bullshit. The Nazis and Imperial Japanese also used to talk like that. That if you were losing it was from lack of will. Not hard factors. We know how well that turned out for them.
Just one word from the German Chancellor or French President saying they would veto Ukraine's ascension into NATO and putting it in writing later would have been enough. But they prefer to destabilize Russia. Putin isn't Stalin. He won't let the war come to Russia. He'll stop the war before it comes to Russia.
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