R Wing
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^ This, deployment of bulky and slow single sections in isolated long range patrols is suicidal. Russia is having to cover a very large area and their supply lines are stretched thin, this is why you are seeing the very impactful optics of scrap Russian metal littering streets and highways.
Where is their best equipment?
To be honest, I too think 'the Western liberal democratic' order is the way forward for humanity and is being gradually adopted by the world--by even Saudi Arabia now. But that way forward should not be through imperialistic way. But through economic and social reforms. I don't see the West as something negative. I tend to see the West as an evolved human situation minus the lingering colonial mindset. Criticizing endless wars--spearheaded by the American Neo Cons--is not the same as criticizing the West. I resent my tax $$ going to support a war machine which not only destroys so much in the world but also bleeds me financially: I still haven't filed my 2021 taxes because, despite paying over $16,000 in Federal and State taxes last year (plus other taxes), I will still have to pay more to the govt and a some of that money would go to support the never-ending wars and the so-called 'Veterans'.
But that's all for another topic. Let's hope there is peace and Russia finds a way out.
That's the entire point.
Don't forget that this 'democratic' order used colonial extractive wealth and slave labor (UK and US, respectively) to create their empires. The US had two massive oceans to its east and west and, in the past many decades at least, friendly/harmless countries to the north and south. Women and non-whites couldn't even vote till very recently. These countries had the luxury to experiment with these 'ideals.'
You CANNOT develop into a superpower or first world nation while following these. There is no example of it. Nor are they realistic when a hostile superpower is trying to destabilize you.
Sure, in a utopian way, they're great. But they just don't make sense for any country trying to earn its security. Don't forget that, even now, the US engages in morally repugnant actions that run contrary to very ideals that they stuff down others' throats - they sell billions in arms to dictatorships, they've toppled democratically elected governments in CIA-led coups to install puppets (some of whom have been exceptionally violent dictators), they continue to protect Israel as it occupies and butchers Palestinians illegally, etc. So, these ideals don't mean jack shit in the real world - only realpolitik works. The rest is just for talks, and is weaponized as an imperialistic tool to justify their own hegemonic actions.
My 2c