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JustTruth's avatar

Yes, USA has a lot of high tech, very complex gadgets. Russia has countered and nuetralized most of them to date, one way or the other. There are now near 300,000 Ukraine killed and missing, and another 300,000 wounded. Russia has about 20,000 dead, and perhaps 50,000 wounded. Ukraine has burned through many thousands of pieces of armor and artillary and 90% of its Air Force. Russia has prepared actively for this war since 2007. At the end of the day, results matter. Russia is rapidly destroying Ukraine military, and likely 2 months away from fully decapitating it, at the current pace.

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Kevin Ha's avatar

This only show how misjudge everybody regarding the technological advancement of the Russian Federation. Even here in Vietnam, a sitting on the fence country, many people, highly educated people, believes that Russia is just a backward country with primitive tech from the 50s and everything HighTech is provided by the West and China. All wrong. Russia, in and by themselves, a superpower with tier 1 technologies. Gives Russia 5 years and they will even be able to produce 5nM chips.

The challenge pose by the US/NATO on Russia is something, in term of magnitude and scale, nobody would even comprehend how can Russia overcome this challenge. I concur that the US, if put into the same situation face the Russian today, would be able to fare that well as the Russian without resorting to nuclear threat.

For China, on the surface they cannot outright support Russia, due to China economy still pretty much intertwined with the West, unlike Russia. So best they can do is behind the scenes intel supply to Russian's forces through front enterprises for plausible deniability. But honestly, I believe the Chinese Armed Forces is actively helping Russia in one way or another, because they know, after Russia, China will be next.

Anyway, I have been missing you from the Saker blog, your NightVision era post is one of the reasons why i follow the Saker.

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