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Originally Posted by Hom3r
One thing that has had me thinking.
Growing up, the USA and the USSR were 2 superpowers with nukes aimed at each other, waiting for the other to blink.
Now Russia seems to be a weak nation with a poor military might.
They should have walked in and taken over Ukraine with minimal resistance, dare I say shooting fish in a barrel.
Now is this the real Russian military, or a massive bluff, and they have far better weapons than it appears?
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Historically speaking invading and holding a country has never been easy. Korea Vietnam Afghanistan and now Ukraine. TBH in the last 100 + years Germany is the only country had and real success with the exception of Iraq I suppose but even then...
The USSR only existed I believe because of WWII