Not to mention this war has revolutionized the Russian military at this point into probably the most dangerous and battle hardened army on the planet.
While NATO and company stagnated over decades of desert insurgencey, the Russians have crash coursed the next stage of modern warfare and paid with it in blood.
This is why I was screeching when we started handing weapons systems over to the Ukrainians. Russia got a whole lot more out of dealing with HIMARS and the like than we got out of "field testing" them. And you know that China benefits as well, however sticky Russ-Sino relations may be.
At this point, there are almost no NATO forces with teeth left. Everything has been thrown into the meat grinder, and there's almost nothing left.
All the expensive Western technology is is a force multiplier. A multiplier times 0 is still 0.
Not to mention this war has revolutionized the Russian military at this point into probably the most dangerous and battle hardened army on the planet.
While NATO and company stagnated over decades of desert insurgencey, the Russians have crash coursed the next stage of modern warfare and paid with it in blood.
This is why I was screeching when we started handing weapons systems over to the Ukrainians. Russia got a whole lot more out of dealing with HIMARS and the like than we got out of "field testing" them. And you know that China benefits as well, however sticky Russ-Sino relations may be.