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Goatseye on 08 November 2016
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AsGryffynn said:
Goatseye said:

1- Russia had no means of staying in Afghanistan. They had no logistical or military capability of sustaining more and more battle losses. It's not that they didn't want to, they couldn't. Those missiles provided by CIA and the idiot Texas senator utterly destroyed Russia's superiority.

2- Russia were outnumbered by Finnish Army? No. Chechens Rebels? No. Even Nazis? No.

Actually, they used their population to buy them time and opportunity to kick an already debilitated Wehrmacht down. And remember US's aid to Russia to mechanize their military because they were still using horses and bayonette. 

3- After they got their act together? You mean after they bomb the eff out of Chechen civilians and lost upwards of 14,000 Red Army, contractors and Spetsnaz lives?

NATO couldn't meddle in Georgia's business with Russia because the benefit was outweighed by economic chaos that a war with Russia would ensue. Imagine if Russia stepped into Germany doors...

1. Russia left because they had no way of staying around and doing anything other than standing by idly until someone attacked something important. You can't root out terrorists. The US couldn't, why would the USSR have done any better? Short of glassing the country, of course! 

2. Great Purge, no funding and crushing your enemy don't really count... Seriously, read on your history to find out why the first was a loss, why the second was a loss of time until they regrouped and why the last one also ended up turning into a complete switcheroo. 

Oh and omit the five year plans, they obviously had nothing to do with how the USSR wasn't wiped out from the face of the Earth by using HORSES! 

Did you even read what you posted? 

3. There was no Red Army after the dissolution of the USSR. This is Russia, not the RED ARMY! 

If Russia stepped into Germany's doors, it'd take the US and Britain to kick them out. 

1- Taliban wish they had footing in Afghanistan like they did at the end of 80's. There are negligible number of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but in the mountains of Pakistan.

2- What does the Great Purge has to do with Finland when they were assaulted by their neighbors? I don't need to refresh on my history to know that Stalin and other Russian dictators lusted for Slav blood. If they were not in condition to fight they shouldn't have stepped into the ring. That's not an excuse, especially when Russian army outnumbered the the Finns by more than 3 times.

3- Russia wouldn't erect one Forward Operating Base on German soil if the Germans recur to guerilla warfare. I'm not familiar with German military.