• Leo Dal Pozzo@infosec.pub
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    4 days ago

    Didn’t Russia stop using “meatwave tactics” long time ago? Now i keep hearing that they send only few people to show that they conquer more terrain than they acually do. Which one is it? Is it the same story as russia being so weak that is about to collapse any moment, but at the same time strong enough to threaten europe? Schrödinger Russia

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      Both can be true in this case, they have the population to sustain it, however the economy is on borrowed time, just like any war. Ukraine is attacking the economy. So the war weariness is increasing. The population has a constant supply of new births however unless you maintain the economy it won’t grow on its own, unless you capture more land or production facilities.

      It’s how the us effectively lost the Vietnam war, it was a political loss, the war weariness caught up on them. Yes they won ever battle, yes they still had the manufacturing output, however they had to pull out. The same thing is happening right now in the us-iran war, and probably why troops haven’t engaged in a land invasion yet.

      I do get what you are thinking, it sounds like fascist propaganda that the enemy is weak and strong at the same time, but I think it falls apart a bit once propaganda becomes an actual war, and economies are involved