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[–]TheJamesRocket 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Purges tend to have a very detrimental effect on the cohesion of a military force. Stalin learned this the hard way in the Winter war and the Great Patriotic war.

 

These morons are setting themselves up for failure. First they allow transvestites back into the U.S. military (which Trump had banned), and now they are purging white conservatives? They have no idea what kindof an effect this will have. The U.S. military has already declined on many levels, and these actions are just going to accelerate that process. If they get carried away, there will be a drastic loss in fighting power.

Biden and his Neocon friends are going to be in for a major shock when they start a war in the Middle East. It will be a total shitshow as units are filled with inept leaders and soldiers who struggle to perform basic tasks, and units disintegrate after prolonged bouts of hard fighting. The U.S. military is a paper tiger, and they won't know it until it is too late. As the saying goes: ''You go to war with the army you have.''

 

The Biden admin is going to be stuck in a quagmire with a dysfunctional military that can't fight peer enemies. Thats a recipe for disaster, especially with Russia in the background. If they are lucky, it will be like Vietnam all over again. If they are unlucky, it will turn into something MUCH worse.

This is why you NEVER let politics interfere with military administration (especially not with training or staffing). You might be able to get away with that Woke bullshit in a boardroom; but in a battlefield, it will get you killed. War is the one domain where you can't fake success.

[–]Lugger 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Biden and his Neocon friends are going to be in for a major shock when they start a war in the Middle East.

The only ones who are going to be in a shock are Iranians or whatever ME country the U.S. decides to attack as their pathetic 'military' is completely obliterated by the U.S. expeditional forces.

You're giving too much credit to combat capabilities of the Middle Easterners as they have proven themselves to be complete and total failures when it comes conventional warfare; take a look at any armed conflict involving these guys in the past 60 years.

It doesn't matter if they fought the U.S., Israel or themselves — it's almost amusing how incompetent and poorly-equipped the Middle Easterners were and how quickly they were being crushed when fighting a serious foe, and it's not like they've changed in any way since.

Iranian military, for example, has much of its combat equipment straight out of the 60s and 70s. That's all you need to know about them.

The U.S. military has already declined on many levels

As for the transgenders and other crap infiltrating the U.S. military... Somehow I seriously doubt the U.S. gubmint will go full retard mode on this one and allow its biggest stick to be crippled. And even if they prove to be absolute morons and do, it's going to take a looooong time until this stuff has any serious effect on the quality of troops.

especially with Russia

Russia couldn't even defeat Ukraine for God's sake in its pathetic proxy war back in 2014-2015, lost a shitton of troops and embarassed itself in front of the entire world by refusing to admit it even waged a war at all.

I know that you were talking about Russia merely backing up a potential U.S. enemy, but come on, the Ukrainian conflict showed how "competent" the Russians are and what their Army is made of.

Bombing the hell out of AK-wielding ISIS peasants is about all it can do.

If they [the Americans] are unlucky, it will turn into something MUCH worse.

The U.S. is bound to fail in any way only if they repeat the same mistake they did with Iraq and Afghanistan and remain in the country to wage an unwinnable counter-insurgency warfare.

A conventional phase of the war between the U.S. and [insert any Middle Eastern country] or Russia or any other 3rd world country will hardly be a fight — it will be a massacre.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Russia couldn't even defeat Ukraine for God's sake in its pathetic proxy war back in 2014-2015

Could have sworn they bloodlessly secured the vital Crimean peninsula which was the main goal in the first place. Eastern Ukraine has Russian involvement but it's not like the Russian involvement has been that heavy.

It doesn't matter if they fought the U.S., Israel or themselves — it's almost amusing how incompetent and poorly-equipped the Middle Easterners were and how quickly they were being crushed when fighting a serious foe,

Lebanaon seemed to do OK against Israel in 2006.

[–]Lugger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Could have sworn they bloodlessly secured the vital Crimean peninsula which was the main goal in the first place.

It means nothing because there was literally no challenge to the Russian Army: back in the day the Ukrainian soldiers stationed in Crimea were completely demoralized due to the Kyiv revolution/coup/whatever the fuck it was and received no orders at all; they simply didn't know what to do or how to react.

I've seen a few videos of Russians "securing" Crimean Ukrainian bases — they were just marching in with no resistance as the Ukrainians weren't even armed.

It was such an easy task that the Russians could as well have "secured" civilian-occupied buildings — the level of resistance and challenge would've been the same.

Eastern Ukraine has Russian involvement but it's not like the Russian involvement has been that heavy.

It wasn't heavy, but it was significant enought for Russians to lose a few of their state-of-the-art vehicles (as well as dozens of older ones) and hundreds of soldiers while fighting the same poorly-trained Ukrainian Army (who had their equipment comprised entirely of Soviet-era shit at that time) — that is how Russian troops perfomed while engaging a foe that actually fought back.

Lebanaon seemed to do OK against Israel in 2006.

Yeah, that was a rare instance of Arabs actually doing somewhat good against a strong army.

[–]DisgustResponse 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Calling Lebanese Arabs

Dangerous game.