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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is moving the goalposts.

no, it is not. it is you who are trying to steer the debate this whole time. russia is not a superpower. it never was. it is a failed country with nukes. period.

your framing of Ukraine really isn’t fair. Ukraine is fighting with absolutely everything they have. Their entire population is either in uniform or supporting the war effort. Russia hasn’t even instituted a draft yet. Ukraine is fighting this like it’s WW2.

russia is fighting like it's ww2, including literally having to pull out the ww2 tanks out of storage, because they were the last ones that weren't destroyed. russia has geared their whole industry towards military production and still can't make it.

But when we’re talking about a superpower, we’re talking about the potential power of a nation, what kind of war effort it’s capable of sustaining if it puts its back into it. The Ukraine war is not a reflection of the type of effort Russia could muster in a total war.

drafting some poor illiterate assholes, giving them 10 potatoes as a ration pack and sending them to the meatgrinder is not the definition of superpower.

I can see where that kind of hubris made sense before the Iran conflict, but now that’s a downright delusional take. That’s tankie level of self-delusion. Russia has a population 2/3rds larger than Iran, controls vastly more territory and resources, and has a per-capita GDP PPP 2.5x that of Iran. And look at how much trouble the US has had with just Iran.

there is significant difference, both political and military/logistical, between offensive and defensive war.