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发表于 2023-5-27 08:17:08
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"Losing face" is the ONLY option.
https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1662216843929731073
As I have argued for years now, I am utterly convinced the US could not win and will not fight a war against Russia in eastern Europe.
They do not have the power nor the means to do so!
They simply could not concentrate and sustain forces sufficient to defeat the Russians (and their allies) in a conventional war. I am more certain of this now than I was when I wrote my seminal article on the topic back in early July 2022. (The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russia — linked at end of this post.)
They would need to assemble a force of no fewer than three million combat effectives and the equipment and armaments sufficient to sustain them for several years.
At this moment in time, the US could not field even 250k combat effectives if they emptied every American base on the planet! And even if they could, they could not sustain them in high-intensity conflict for more than a month or so!
As for US air power, even if they could magically maintain 100% mission-capable rates for all their aircraft, they would run out of missiles with which to arm them in a matter of weeks!
They would also be deprived within days of all their aerial tankers and airborne ISR assets.
And, of course, the attrition rate on US strike aircraft against Russian air defenses would be absolutely catastrophic.
Anyway, I could go on and on about this. There are many other insuperable limitations and obstacles the US would face in an attempt to fight a war against Russia in eastern Europe.
And the same sorts of insuperable limitations and obstacles would apply to war against either Iran or China.
The US has only one good option: relinquish empire and spend the next few decades rebuilding America.
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Links:
The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russiahttps://imetatronink.substack.co ... uld-not-win-andhtml
The Arsenal of Democracy Isn'thttps://imetatronink.substack.com/p/the-arsenal-of-democracy-isnt |
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