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We just funded and managed two 20 year wars across the planet from our borders, one in a landlocked country. Russia couldn't move a tank column down a highway at the beginning of this war.

Putin is definitely crushing us at manly and assertive displays, though.



Maybe that says more about the military capabilities of the people that America fought vs that of the people Russia is fighting?


That tank column was defeated by mud and lack of supply, opposing forces were a distant third.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Kyiv_convoy


Would you say that this particular episode is representative of the entire Russian military during this conflict?


Pretty much? They have logistics problems 20 miles from their borders, we had excellent logistics for 20 years in frickin Afghanistan. They built Taco Bell restaurants on the bases. These are entirely different leagues of capability.


Did the Taliban ever take out one of those taco bells with an American supplied ATACMS?


Irrelevant compared to logistics.

Russians are winning now because they've figured out logistics within 50 miles of their borders compared to earlier in the war. Still doesn't mean they can project globally, and everyone knows.


Maybe a big part of why the Russians are having issues with logistics is due to those ATACMs and such.




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