• CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    What exactly is his concept of "combat power"? It can't be manpower or the weapons, vehicles, and ammunition, because Russia certainly hasn't used up half of that. Just... what metric, what mental gymnastic, do you have to perform to even arrive at the idea Russian combat power has been reduced by 50%???

    • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Well, they loudly proclaimed Russia was out of tanks/planes/bullets/soldiers a few times this war. 50% is probably as low as they are willing to go.

      • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        What's funny is even reducing Russian combat power by 5% in 2 years of proxy war actually sounds impressive to me, but I'm no general.

          • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            It does. Though whether it says a lot about the speaker (that he's dumb enough to believe such an exaggeration, or thinks Americans are), or the American public for foolishly believing something so outrageous, idk.