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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by risyachka on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:41PM (#34931188)
Russia is a military state. They have about a million of police and other military forces inside the country.

And internal separatist movements are so tiny you can handle them with 1/1000 of the force they have.

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by TylerE on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:43PM (#34931214)
They also thought they could take Ukraine in about the time it took Hitler to blitz into Poland.
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by foverzar on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:08PM (#34931501)
That is an assumption.
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by andrewflnr on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:09PM (#34932118)
It's the hypothesis that ascribes the least idiocy to Russian military command, compared to, say, deliberately wading into a multi-year attritional struggle. As much we may think they're fools, they're probably not that stupid.
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by foverzar on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:22AM (#34935502)
> deliberately wading into a multi-year attritional struggle

I don't understand how people expect anything different here. Even the US with all it's superpower fanciness spent years in Iraq and decades in Afghan. I am also skeptical over that whole "my opponent is more stupid than me" attitude. We can already see how people made fools of themselves spelling Russia's haste economic demise, while Russia is expecting an economic growth now according to the World Bank.

Idiocy would be setting unrealistic expectations and treating this like a computer game, when a well-fortified Ukrainian army at the Donetsk border (that Zelensky was inspecting a few times in 2021) would somehow de-spawn or vanish in case Russia would hastily take Kyiv.

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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by andrewflnr on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:26AM (#34936138)
Actually there's more than just that one way of being an idiot and having unrealistic expectations. Wishful thinking springs eternal, on both sides clearly.
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by okasaki on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:47PM (#34931274)
What does that mean? Is the US a military state?
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by zztop44 on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:00PM (#34931418)
Yes, quite obviously yes, I would have thought. All imperial states are military states aren’t they?
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by orwin on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:48PM (#34931936)
No to your question, i wouldn't call 19th century GB a military state. But the US is one, i would agree.
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Re:One Year into the War in Ukraine by reddog on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:57PM (#34932986)
Would it surprise to learn that among the worlds nations the US ranks 76th in the number of military personel per capita? North Korea is #1 with 306 military personel per 1000 citizens. The US is 6.3/1000. The US is sandwiched between Namibia (#75) and Belize (#77).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

Its also #22 in military spending as a percentage of GDP. However the US is #3 in per capita military spending.

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