Billy Ringo

If there's one European NATO country that might need it's tanks soon, it's definitely Poland. Striping active units of equipment means no continuity of training (and basically of existence) of those units, this can't be allowed, not in the frontier country.
We already signed a contract for new M1s that we are paying market price for, but those will be delivered around 2025. TBH the allegation that Poland wants to somehow profiteer out of Ukraine's predicament is quite insulting.
 

Well maybe the Lesson Russia should be taking from NATO's past interventions is don't start an unasked for genocidal intervention in a Neighboring State ? . Sharper minds than mine will likely reply to your post point by point .

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Sometimes you just have to put pencil to paper, black and white, raw numbers, two columns: 
$7 trillion  vs. $700 billion.  
That's the difference between very rough estimates of US vs. Russian military spending over the past 10 years.   And that doesn't take into consideration graft, inefficiencies nor the budgets of other NATO/Western nations.
Maintenance and upkeep.  Training.  Surveillance. Communications. Breadth and depth of weapons.  Research and Development, etc.
10X.
I realize I'm stating the most basic and obvious comparison of this entire battle.  But sometimes it gets lost in the minutiae of the discussions. 
10X.  As long as the US and a few other countries continue to support the Ukrainians this war cannot end well for the Russians.  Like a AA or AAA baseball team--they may win one game vs. a MLB team (or for our Euro friends--a National League vs. a Premier League), but they aren't winning the season or a series of multiple games.  
It's not gonna happen.
Peace.
 
 

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