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   Vincent to Jeff   
   Re: UK Suggests Its Warships WIll Breech   
   26 May 22 05:08:07   
   
   From: Vine@Letuci.org   
      
   On 5/26/2022 4:01 AM, Jeff wrote:   
   >   
   >> I don't think so. It is amazing how fast Putin has modernized Russia's   
   >> military in a short two decades.   
   >   
   > So modernised that it was fought to a standstill by Ukraine and then   
   > pushed back to its own borders. Give Putin 2 more decades of   
   > modernisation and they could be beaten by Swiss female football team.   
   >   
   > Putin's policies have crippled the Russian military. They are too large,   
   > too underfunded for their size, moral is non-existent, logistics are a   
   > joke, reliability is non-existent, tactics are a joke. They still think   
   > they are fighting WW2. A war of attrition is all they are capable of,   
   > which they may well win purely on numbers, but at what loss.   
      
   Russia has spent decades defending its borders from Chinese invaders.   
   Which means that the Russians were not equipped or trained to be the   
   invaders and did not have logistics supply lines in place of with   
   trained personal.   
   >   
   > Jeff   
      
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