Subject: Re: Why the border bill will fail
Here's what I wrote.
You don't read what other people link or post; you just fire off stuff.

Hmm. If only there had been a previous conflict that pitted Soviet/Russian war doctrine, training and front line combat equipment against the United State's lineup. That might have given us *some* clues. Or maybe we could have seen other examples of Russian hardware quality out there.

There were 2 such occasions. Gulf Wars I and II.
In both instances we saw Russian hardware, doctrine and tactics (Iraq was a Soviet/Russian client state) against the United States and NATO.

The Russian way was decimated. Their equipment was vastly inferior to ours in a technical and a quality sense.

If you study any of this you'd also know that Putin struggles to put his Navy to sea. They can barely steam anywhere and their endurance is poor.

Had you looked even deeper, you'd have seen things like this
https://theaviationist.com/202...
Following its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ukrainian public opinion was divided between reaching out to the West or staying aligned with Russia. Ukraine became in 1993 one of the many European countries to join the State Partnership Program, where each country was paired with an American state, and Ukraine was paired with California.

We've been training the Ukrainian Air Force for 30 years.

Col. Robert “Tigger” Swertfager, Operations Group Commander of the California Air National Guard’s 144th Fighter Wing, explains the 29-year long relationship between the California ANG and Ukraine. Col. Swertfager has 20 years of experience in working with Ukraine, as he’s the former State Partnership Program director and a key figure in the expertise of the region.

Think the Ukrainians learned anything? Think we learned how the Russians trained pilots?

What about their ground troops? We've been training them too.
https://nationalpost.com/news/...

Giving small-unit commanders the autonomy to make decisions on the fly was a cultural transformation for the Ukrainian soldiers, but seems to be paying off in spades

Huh. A complete 180 from Soviet/Russian battle doctrine.
We've been teaching the Ukrainians to fight like NATO for decades.

No more rocks for you.
If you knew where to look and if you actually followed national security topics, you can draw conclusions about world events before and as they happen.

The Russian system also breeds corruption. We're just now seeing this bubble up in China as well.