Russian Military Weakness

The Russian military would beg to differ, see the sibling's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106162

Russians are stealing butter and rationing electricity, Russia won’t level anything to rubble far beyond their borders this century. They are almost out of steam.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701491https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701640

Who knows if they work. Russians aren't even able to maintain army supply trucks properly.

Russia is a paper bear, it makes up on quality with quantity but it's a vastly unpopulated country with an old population. Morale is low, equipment is old and in poor shape. Russia is an empire and have a large share of it's forces tied down to inner tensions and can't be employed. The gross of Russians soldiers are composed by ethnic and and poor soldiers thus some are more interested in stealing than fighting. Also Russian forces haven't been significantly employed in the l

Russia is currently doing logistics with civilian transports. Which is not well adjusted to the terrain for eg. Off-road/mud.I think their logistic capabilities are almost reduced to 0 and this could become a decisive factor ( eg. Around Kiev at this very instant).Additionally, all the new weapons are produced in limited quantities and mostly sold to foreign countries because they need the money. Their actual equipment is mostly rusty and from the Soviet era.

Not going to say "lost", myself, but Russia looks oddly weak. It's the country that planned the fight in advance and could stock up, yet is buying from Iran and North Korea and AFAICT its own latest tank model still hasn't even been used once. It's the country that has a large air force and is using waves of untrained infantry attacks instead of air power. It's the country with the larger population yet recruiting mercenaries abroad. It's the country that'

lol Russia are barely making progress in Ukraine, and have effectively been in a stalemate since the 2022 invasion - while currently shipping back their wounded vets to the frontline on donkeys. Hadn't it been for Trump, Russia would effectively go bankrupt before being able to cross the Dnipro river.The only real capability Russia has, are their nuclear weapons and other long-range weapons - and even with the latter, they have been struggling.FWIW, I worked in the defense industry, a

Easy to defend mega land with harsh winters (but not so harsh anymore as they were during those failed campaigns), especially when both defeated invading armies severely underestimated... cold weather. Nobody is really invading russia here, whole world just wants to be left alone from them, including all former soviet republics (funnily this includes Belarus too).That's not saying anything about their offensive capabilities, which as whole world sees are a fraction of what was tho

Just a note. Ukranian manufacturing has really stepped up. They are making 80% of the ammunition now.They also have a well trained army still alive while the Russians have only conscripts with weeks of training.Russia manufacturing is diminishing daily.I'm not sure Russia will have any bullets left by the end of the year. And north Korean reinforcements were such a bust, they were all slaughtered.The main worry is if the US starts buying Russian oil, but that won't be an is

I suspect that it is very "overblown" at this point. Russia are using shit equipment all over. Maybe they're afraid those "thousands of missiles" will land on their heads instead of where they're aiming it because they haven't been maintained for decades.