Sure. It all comes down to individual psychology. That’s why the Chinese bureaucracy has maintained the same exact position on Taiwan across more than 5 leaders over 50 years. It’s just psychological.
It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that the province of Taiwan comprises an island chain that currently has active US military stationed on it, the closest of which is only 4 miles off the coast of the mainland.
Just like Obama’s insurance scheme.
Consider, though, that Thomas Jefferson was literally a bigger piece of shit than DJT because he ran breeding plantations and advocated for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade so that he could charge higher prices and capture more of the market for “domestically produced” slaves. He also had a little cave in his bedroom where he kept child slaves that he raped .
Wow, sure, that’s the fucking timeline. Not
But sure, tell me about how it’s Russia and China that are undermining international law and doing imperialism. Go for it. You’re right. Those countries operate in a total vacuum and have nothing to worry about at all from the psychotic USA. It’s a totally different situation. Two wrongs don’t make a right. China and Russia are just as wrong here dealing with very specific US-involved dangerous situations right on their border. It’s still illegal!!
It is highly likely that the war games included US occupied territories like Korea and Japan.
Again, if China is gonna bribe the US to stay away from Taiwan, then they have no need to attack Taiwan. I’ll say it till you people hear: attacking Taiwan, absent a threat of US military installation, is a net negative for China and China knows it
That’s not how war games work. The US ran the war games. They had a US team and a China team. The China team was made of US military strategists and they were given all of the known capabilities and quantities of the PLA from US intelligence. It’s not like they invited China to play a war game with them.
I’m curious too. Can you find a source for what he said?
Oh yeah, wow. It would be terrible for the FBI to become authoritarian. What a strange and totally twisted way to run a national police force…
It’s wild how you think your interpretation of history is water tight.
America has never been invaded and has never had to defend it’s territory with the life of its people. Neither has Canada.
Russia was fighting for its survival against Napoleon and against the Third Reich. Massive militaries with a singular focus invading The Borderlands (The Ukraine) and crossing into Russia. Those campaigns were massive existential threats. Russia never attempted to invade Vietnam with superior air cover the way the US did.
You can’t compare American battle tactics to Russian tactics when the entire context is fundamentally different. Did Russia invade Afghanistan? No. Did it use human wave tactics when it intervened in Czechoslovakia? No.
So then what actual examples do we have? Napoleon’s invasion and Hitler’s invasion. Both existential wars of defense.
Imagine blaming a country’s military strategy for its soldiers dying under the worst invasions the world has literally ever seen.
Don’t worry. I have been posting on the grad for a long while. Just decided I wanted to get into more debates and too many instances block the grad.
As for the sources for those numbers I just copied and pasted the AI overview from Google. Low effort. Happy to dig in though.
Looks like it uses Wikipedia as it’s first source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces
The number for enlisted military on that page is sourced as an article from the AP https://apnews.com/article/putin-finland-sergei-shoigu-ee953abf7f9bf217ccdaa61ec1b35ddd
Which states in December of 2022:
The Russian military currently has about 1 million soldiers
But it provides no source for that claim.
The numbers for Europe also are backed by Wikipedia here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel
And here’s a useful article that breaks it down pretty well
What’s funny is that you say this now and then in the same breath say that Europe must build up NATO and destroy Russia to protect Europe from Russia. Nice cognitive dissonance you got there.
Which is it? Russia is an existential threat that must be met with increasing budgets, military build up, possibly a draft, and preemptive violence, or Russia being a threat to the EU is laughable?
Is this that thing about going into Ukraine without helmets, body armor, and guns?
I wish you could see what that really means because if it were true that Russian soldiers were sent in without gear in the last couple of weeks it is also true that Ukraine is still losing ground to those soldiers which means unarmored and unarmed Russian soldiers who are eating tree bark for sustenance and scavenging for guns and ammo are still able to push the UA back.
So which is it? The Russians are not gaining ground or they are and they’re doing it without gear?
Also. If it was 4:1, with Ukraine having lost at least 400k, that would mean Russia losing 1.6M which is at least 20% more than the entire size of the Russian military before the invasion.
That math just ain’t mathing.
As of 2025, Russia has approximately 1.32 million active military personnel and around 2 million reserve personnel. The total size of the Russian Armed Forces, including active military and reserves, is about 3.57 million, following presidential decrees that increased the troop numbers in January and December of 2023.
The number of enlisted personnel in all of Europe is approximately 1.6 million active-duty troops, though exact figures vary by source and the inclusion of different types of forces. European Union countries alone had an active-duty military size of about 1.9 million in 2020, while other estimates place the total active-duty personnel across all of Europe (including the UK) around 1.5 to 1.6 million.
LOL. No fucking duh. Just like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, Intel, Verizon, AT&T, Ford, GM, Jeep, A16Z, Palantir, Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Siemens, Honeywell, Dupont, and literally thousands of others have links to the US military