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[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Russia is an important geopolitical ally for China. Tension between them is not advantageous at this time.

Also, Americans love dunking on the Russian army, and while it maybe wasn’t as formidable as we thought, it’s still significant. It’s not as if it would be totally free.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Uhh, they're getting dunked on by their own version of Canada.

It would be a wipe, Russia has nowhere near enough people to defend siberia, kthey can't even defend a few hundred miles south of moscow.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

So how many times did the US invade another country and won within a three days "special operation" time?

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Winning has never been the problem, keeping the peace has been.

But running in and clearing out opposing forces on the field? We're amazing at that.

The only forces Russians are good at beating are civilians when they're driving tanks.

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

So that's how you guys completely whiped out the Taliban /s

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We utterly destroyed them, but then they just ran and hid for decades in the mountains, and short of blowing up the mountains there's not a lot you can do.

Course, they killed 20x as many Russians, so at least our score isn't as bad. And the Russians were trying to wipe them out.

[-] HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And the Viet Cong.

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