Originally posted by Bearack
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
Originally posted by Zosynspiracy
Harden your body? WTF! This is the 21st century. Soldiers have body armor and assault rifles. Obviously you nor the Russians know ANYTHING about modern combat.
Is that supposed to be a joke or something? Like I posted on this site before, it is this type of ignorance that dominates the American military philosophy. You keep believing that wars are fought by guns and armour, and the rest of the world will believe that wars are won by spirit and honour.
No wonder the "supreme" American army is deadlocked with ragtag insurgencies.
ROFL......Um, Russia (or, the USSR ATT) had their butts handed to them by the Mujahideen and are still getting their ass handed to them by the Chechens. They even took quite a ponding from a tiny army in Georgia. If the numbers would have been equal and not a 100 to 1 ratio, I honeslty think the Georgians would have handed Russia their butts to them as well.
The same mujahadeen trained and supplied and funded by the CIA? Yeah, kinda odd you left that part out.
The same mujahadeen in Afghanistan is now taking on America with the same weapons and training the CIA gave them..only difference is they do not have a super power providing them with the funding and training and weapons this time. And they are STILL putting up a fight, with the US unable to do much except bomb weddings and coalition forces.
If you actually think Gerogia inflicted mass casaulties or damage to the Russian military during that brief war, you seriously need to expand your reading material beyond western propaganda pieces. You know, so you get a little more perspective on the whole situation.
The Russians were on the verge of capturing Tiblisi the capital, and the rest of Georgia. That would have severely jeopardised oil/gas shipments via western pipelines that run through Georgia. Notice how Russia did not advance that far south. Wonder why? Because it would have dragged the US in, not for Georgia, but for US interests(ie oil/gas supplies).
The Russians did not want WW3..they are not insane. Neither does the US.
Georgia got spanked, hard. It poked the bear by bombing it's UN mandated peace keepers in the breakaway regions, the bear stood up and ripped some limbs off, stopping short of a death blow.
I'm sure if we let Russian/eastern media scrutinize our side as much as our media scrutinizes them, they too would have all sorts of wonderful tales to tell.
