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Moscow says it will keep pushing its offensive in Ukraine, though NATO doubts Russia has the resources to make a significant breakthrough.

NATO’s top military officer has said Russia’s armed forces are incapable of any major advance.

“The Russians don’t have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough,” NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe Christopher Cavoli told reporters on Thursday.

“More to the point, they don’t have the skill and the capability to do it; to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage,” the general said.

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do not see contradiction in those statements. Plus, if they can do 50 miles per year, sooner or later they will conquer Ukraine, then Baltic states, then Moldova and Poland and so on…

[–] mephiska@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Poland is a NATO member, so no, they're not touching Poland. If they do it's WWIII.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So are the Baltic states. So what?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

As long as there is no Manchurian president in the US, we have Article 5. If surplus hardware from the 80s and 100 Bradleys have done what they have done imagine what 1000 Bradleys hundreds of we'll supplied and maintained Abrahams, Leos and Challengers can do when supported by the good ATACMS, Tomahawks and of course hundreds of F16s, F22s and F35s. There is no need for nuclear weapons, NATO can curb stomp Russia in traditional warfare. You need one breakthrough and then Prigozhin showed what defenses you can expect once you get past the front. Or Ukraine with their kamikaze Cessnas.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, I think Poland is in a "I wish a bitch would" mood. They could have it handled before the rest of the world even has a chance to respond lmao

(More seriously though, yeah you're right. I'm mostly joking around)

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Didn't they just buy a shitload of HIMARS too?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

And for all their bravado "Poland is next" (see Medvedev for instance) they shit their pants and were soooo ready to cooperate when a missile fell on Polish soil and killed a farmer. Turned out to be a failed Ukrainian S300, but once Article 5 was even a remote possibility we all saw their real thoughts.