At this point i dont get why people let Putin fear monger.
Dude needs to get weapons from North Korea, has to throw old bombs and fight with cheap Drones.
His oh so great Sea fleet is getting crippled...and he still cant take a significant smaller country.
And people still act like Russia needs to be feared.
Incomplete.
1) The "great" sea fleet is indeed severely damaged. I don't recall claims that Russia was a naval superpower. Large above-water vessels are obsolete regardless, were just seeing it in Sebastopol first. Notice that the US Navy is losing its battle off the coast of Yemen.
2) There's nothing wrong with buying weapons from North Korea unless you're a racist. And even then Europe buys weapons from South Korea. They're both technologically advanced countries. North Korea, for example, has better hypersonic missiles technology than all of NATO.
3) Yes, they use old bombs, cheap drones, bullets, artillery shells, and land mines. It's not ideal for a country to prioritize overpriced fancy weapons, see the Nazis in WW2. They built the best weapons at the time. Much better weapons than the Americans and Soviets. But they couldn't build them in large numbers, they couldn't get enough replacement parts to the front lines, etc.
Admiral Karl Donnitz gave that warning to Hitler, who didn't listen to him. When he died in his bunker, he must have realized his mistake, as he named Donnitz his successor.
At the same time, you shouldn't trivialize hypersonic missiles, tornado launchers, jamming technology, etc.
4) Ukraine had (and may still have) the strongest NATO army in Europe, and they've been heavily armed and rearmed and remanned by NATO equipment and mercenaries.
5) You're dismissing the Russian national interest, which is to defeat NATO as slowly as possible. A slow boil approach works better.
6) It's true that there's nothing to fear as Russia obviously has no interest in invading Poland and Czhechia. There'd be no point. Those people are not Russians. East Ukrainians are Russians.
