XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sci.physics.relativity   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Samstag000004, 04.01.2025 um 08:40 schrieb Siri Cruise:   
   > Thomas Heger wrote:   
   >>> Because Zelensky has driven them out of Donetsk and is now going to   
   >>> liberate Crimea with F16, Himars, Abrams, and many billions?   
   >>>   
   >>> Only the terminally stupid can believe that.   
   >   
   > And the American colonies were laughed off the continent at the silly   
   > idea of defeating the world's super power.   
   >   
   >> The Russians have a good strategic position in that conflict and the   
   >> Nato has a terrible one.   
   >   
   > NATO has no position. It is not fighting.   
   >   
      
   Well, we have actually a 'proxy war', which is seemingly financed by   
   western powers and maintained by Ukrainians and Russians (plus solders   
   of fortune from various countries).   
      
   Now the Russians are the dominant power in this conflict, because   
   Russian military is many times stronger that the Ukrainian.   
      
   This will not change in the immediate future, if no Nato troops would   
   engage into that conflict, too.   
      
   I was writing about the hypothetical possibility, that this could happen.   
      
   In THAT case Nato forces would need to reach the front line in the   
   eastern  Ukraine somehow.   
      
   I meant, that Russian missiles, submarines, mines and other weapons   
   could easily destroy US carriers and other ships, once they try to come   
   through the Bosporous.   
      
   The only alternative to the Black Sea would be the Baltic Sea.   
      
   But that is too narrow, too shallow and in the reach of Russian missiles   
   in the Kaliningrad district. It is also too far away.   
      
   This would exclude support of Nato troops by ships, what would leave   
   only land and air-transport.   
      
   Flight is fast, but would be VERY dangerous, since Russia has very good   
   anti-aircraft missiles, jet-fighters and other means.   
      
   This would leave only land transport and marching infantry, supported by   
   tanks.   
      
   But: the Ukraine is VERY large and VERY flat.   
      
   This would make walking there really dangerous, too, because the   
   landscape provides no protection at all.   
      
   The Russians have also an insane amount of tanks (and other armored   
   vehicles) and are essentially a 'land-fighting-nation'.   
      
   So: there is actually no feasible way to bring Nato troops to the front,   
   supposed that is wanted.   
      
   TH   
      
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