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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Russia has assembled about 70% of the military capability needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the coming weeks, US officials say.
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Not long ago they said that the Russians already had amassed the needed combat power to start going.
I read that once the currently in transit reinforcements have arrived, over 60-70% of Russiam total combat powers will be at the Ukraine borders. Talk is of close to 100 batallion battle groups.
How times have changed. 35+ years ago it was NATO being about batallions and companies - the Russiand were counted by
divisions. One did not expect highly mobile and individual "combat teams", but orchestrated first and second "waves" or army groups that drive the attack as deep as possible before they get bogged down by their own losses - and then a third echelon should achieve the penultimate breakthrough through the already battered NATO lines, then cannibalize the units from the first two waves.
Well, nobody has the numbers for such plans anymore.The loss of one fighterplane is many times as costly than it was 40, 50 years ago. When the UK lost Tornados in the Kuwait war, the loss was expressed by the BBC in fractions of the GDP.
If all this is just Russian bluff, then it is the most convincing bluff I have ever seen one. And where is the bluff? Maybe regarding the Ukraine invasion. But with the strageic goal of Putin to divert and divide the EU, there is nom bluffing at all, it is long estalbished policy founded on long lasting strategic thinking - something the EU
and especially Germany is not capable of.