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I'm sure NATO armies that never saw actual combat are going to do great against a seasoned army that's been destroying NATO proxy for the past three years.
What army? They are down to their last reserves, have few modern tanks left, and even their air force is running on empty. If this wasn't the case, they would be in Kiev right now.
^ this is your brain on propaganda kids
meanwhile in the real world https://odessa-journal.com/public/oleksandr-syrskyi-russia-outnumbers-ukrainian-forces-three-to-one-overall-and-on-the-main-fronts-by-4-to-6-times
Again, why aren't they in Kiev? Here's the thing. Russia is a big country with a lot of people in it. This is no surprise that they have a large army, I wasn't disputing that. What I am disputing is that they have any professional soldiers left after 3 years of fighting. What I'm saying is that they have mostly conscripts. That their modern front line tanks are basically gone, or else they would be using them and not resorting to antiques.
They are not in Kiev because their goal is destruction of the AFU. Once the AFU collapses, Russia will be able to take whatever territory they want when they dictate the terms of surrender. Meanwhile, the only western source that shows any methodology has this to say about Russian casualties https://en.zona.media/article/2025/09/12/casualties_eng-trl
The fact that you think Russian modern tanks are gone shows that you have absolutely no clue regarding the subject. https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/returning-tank-production-soviet-era-levels-russia-over-3000
Of course, there's nothing that can be said to you that would change your views since you're clearly living in a fantasy world. You'll just have to wait and see how this ends for yourself. Prepare to be very surprised.
Sounds like a whole lot of Russian propaganda to me.
sounds like a whole lot of coping to me
Why are there so many libs on lemmy?
Migrated from reddit some time ago and while it's possible to remove libs from reddit, it's way harder to remove reddit from libs.