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Ryuu96 on 27 October 2022



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Ka-pi96 on 28 October 2022

How on earth can putin claim US dominance is at an end when his supposed "powerful" country has shown its army to be woefully incompetent and has an economy on the brink of collapse? The US isn't at its best at the moment, but come on, they're still miles ahead of where russia are. Probably an understatement actually, they're so far that the US can't even see russia anymore, russia is a dot to them!



Ryuu96 on 28 October 2022
Ka-pi96 said:

How on earth can putin claim US dominance is at an end when his supposed "powerful" country has shown its army to be woefully incompetent and has an economy on the brink of collapse? The US isn't at its best at the moment, but come on, they're still miles ahead of where russia are. Probably an understatement actually, they're so far that the US can't even see russia anymore, russia is a dot to them!

Put it this way, America being the #1 military contributor to Ukraine by far is absolutely pounding Russia without even sending a single soldier into Ukraine and even that is a fraction of America's military power, Lol. These MFs don't even have an answer for HIMARS.

Economically is a whole other thing, America is ahead by a massive margin, the vast majority of Russia is underdeveloped, they don't even know what a fucking toilet is. The only cities which Russia gives a damn about are Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

And Russia has put America back as a leader of NATO and increased their influence in Europe once again after the disaster of Trump, not all fixed but there are still some countries who don't move unless America moves first.

So yeah, the only thing Russia has on America now is their nukes.

This has probably given even China second thoughts on Taiwan because that would be defended even harder than Ukraine.

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Ka-pi96 on 28 October 2022
Ryuu96 said:
Ka-pi96 said:

How on earth can putin claim US dominance is at an end when his supposed "powerful" country has shown its army to be woefully incompetent and has an economy on the brink of collapse? The US isn't at its best at the moment, but come on, they're still miles ahead of where russia are. Probably an understatement actually, they're so far that the US can't even see russia anymore, russia is a dot to them!

Put it this way, America being the #1 military contributor to Ukraine by far is absolutely pounding Russia without even sending a single soldier into Ukraine and even that is a fraction of America's military power, Lol. These MFs don't even have an answer for HIMARS.

Economically is a whole other thing, America is ahead by a massive margin, the vast majority of Russia is underdeveloped, they don't even know what a fucking toilet is. The only cities which Russia gives a damn about are Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

And Russia has put America back as a leader of NATO and increased their influence in Europe once again after the disaster of Trump, not all fixed but there are still some countries who don't move unless America moves first.

So yeah, the only thing Russia has on America now is their nukes.

This has probably given even China second thoughts on Taiwan because that would be defended even harder than Ukraine.

Do they even have that? Given the lack of maintenance apparently done on their regular army equipment you can't help but wonder how many of their nukes are actually in working order.

Taiwan is one of the few good things to come out of this. That was one of my big concerns at the start. If russia had taken Kyiv quickly and won then that may well have encouraged China to have a go at Taiwan too. But it turning into a long drawn out costly nightmare for russia surely discourages China from trying anything.

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Barozi on 28 October 2022
Ka-pi96 said:
Ryuu96 said:

Put it this way, America being the #1 military contributor to Ukraine by far is absolutely pounding Russia without even sending a single soldier into Ukraine and even that is a fraction of America's military power, Lol. These MFs don't even have an answer for HIMARS.

Economically is a whole other thing, America is ahead by a massive margin, the vast majority of Russia is underdeveloped, they don't even know what a fucking toilet is. The only cities which Russia gives a damn about are Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

And Russia has put America back as a leader of NATO and increased their influence in Europe once again after the disaster of Trump, not all fixed but there are still some countries who don't move unless America moves first.

So yeah, the only thing Russia has on America now is their nukes.

This has probably given even China second thoughts on Taiwan because that would be defended even harder than Ukraine.

Do they even have that? Given the lack of maintenance apparently done on their regular army equipment you can't help but wonder how many of their nukes are actually in working order.

Taiwan is one of the few good things to come out of this. That was one of my big concerns at the start. If russia had taken Kyiv quickly and won then that may well have encouraged China to have a go at Taiwan too. But it turning into a long drawn out costly nightmare for russia surely discourages China from trying anything.

I remember being in Taiwan in 2019 when I got an automated message on my phone (an HTC at that time which is Taiwan-made) about a country-wide emergency drill taking place immediately. I was in a touristy mountain village when I received the notification. The police were clearing the streets of cars and people. No one was allowed to drive or even walk. We had to stay 30 minutes on the side of the road until the drill was over. (they were testing how fast emergency response vehicles could get from one place to another in case of a Chinese missle attack).
They are indeed taking it very serious there.



Farsala on 28 October 2022
Ka-pi96 said:

How on earth can putin claim US dominance is at an end when his supposed "powerful" country has shown its army to be woefully incompetent and has an economy on the brink of collapse? The US isn't at its best at the moment, but come on, they're still miles ahead of where russia are. Probably an understatement actually, they're so far that the US can't even see russia anymore, russia is a dot to them!

Yeah it is pretty clear that Russia is pretty useless without the backing of other countries' economies at this point.  Since WWII they were only a major power due to the other economies like the US during WWII or the USSR states until 1990s.