On 6/13/2022 6:22 PM,
cano...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, May 13, 2022 at 1:31:18 PM UTC-4, a425couple wrote:
>>
>> Did Russia’s Putin teach a lesson to NATO countries and the West by
>> attacking Ukraine?
>> Oh ya- Putin taught NATO lessons like he was a professor.
>>
>> Lesson 1: Russia sucks
>>
>> I cannot overstate how long NATO has feared the invincible Russian bear-
>> a military that could muster 15,000 tanks and swarm Europe. The US has
>> spent 700 billion dollars PER YEAR building to face this exact threat.
>>
>> NATO developed special tactics to deal with Russia including specialized
>> defense-in-depth (definition in comments) procedures, specialized
>> weapons training, and tactical concepts meant to target Russia’s weak
>> points.
>>
>> The big question was “would it work”. Would these untested tactics,
>> strategies, and weapons work in the face of a large-scale Russian invasion?
>>
>> Ukraine didn’t really have much of an Army prior to 2014. Then Putin
>> annexed Crimea and started fighting in the Donbas. Suddenly Ukraine had
>> to build an army very quickly with the singular goal of defending
>> against a Russian invasion. So naturally, they turned to NATO for
>> training and NATO gave them everything- the weapons, the tactics, the
Yes. Rather amazing how much the USA wastes.