re: Russia Unveils New Main Battle Tank, Among Other Things

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Yet their military is not as massive as it used to be and is made up of a frick ton of conscripts. They would probably need almost every well bodied man on the front fighting NATO.

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I don't know that anyone really believes we couldn't eventually defeat the Russians in a war.
The thing is we don't want to FIGHT that fricking war in the first place. It would be terrible.
Putin would still be nuts to try something like this, but not quite as nuts as it would have been to try that when we had a sizable number of forces in Europe.

Lots of wishful thinking in this thread and in America in general these days.

I'm not saying we should never cut defense spending or that we should be the worlds police, etc, but it's foolish to believe there won't be consequences when we pull back.

I believe that we would have a tough time drumming up the will to fight, even if Russia did try something. The current military would follow orders, but what would the orders be? And is the current military big enough to defeat the Russians?