@mark94: you do realize "most" means more than 50% right? Sorry but it was nowhere close to that. How many T-34's were made in the US? I'll give you a hint: US tanks sucked by comparison even up to the last days of the war.
Zelensky has backed off his insistence on being allowed to join NATO. Ukraine is not going dislodge Russia from Crimea or Donbas anytime soon. You could argue just as well that Putin has already won. Now he just seems to be seeing just much he gain: would like formal recognition of Crimea and Donbas but he could just hold it de facto if that doesn't happen.
China and India are big players and we help ease sanctions on him.
Militarily his tanks are useless against javelins and his planes nearly so against stinger. It's effectively infantry versus infantry. Can he draw in more troops? Would it require a draft? I don't know the mood in Russia well enough to comment, but if he can draft then his population is three times that of Ukraine so he will win eventually.
The media is saying it is a slam dunk and mark94 is parroting it, but I don't think it's over by a long shot.
The United States certainly did not save Russia during WWII. Sometime between Stalingrad and Kursk the Soviets stop insisting very hard the US enter the war. After Kursk the Soviet Union knew they had it in the bag: with out without the United States entering in western Europe. The Soviets never lost momentum after Kursk and certainly by Normady (which happened around the time of Bagration in the East) it was merely nice that the US land, but not essential.
@misterorange: Your post is nuts! You are willing to risk nuclear war on the one in a million chance that it's all a big bluff and Russia doesn't have any actual nukes?
@misterorange: missile defense systems are under development but not deployed and certain not on a large enough scale to counter a full nuclear strike. Hypersonic missiles will probably render them obsolete.
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