The west loves to make fun of Russia now but they're basically running a massive live fire exercise on NATO equipment and tactics in Ukraine right now. It's a lot like the Winter War imo. Even if it doesn't end in a decisive victory, Russia can't really lose against Ukraine, and like the Winter War they are going to learn a lot of lessons and adjust their doctrines for future conflicts accordingly.
Meanwhile it seems we didn't seem to learn anything from getting humiliated in Afghanistan a couple years ago and instead opted to just memory hole it on a national level.
Remember in ww1 how most of the imperial powers had a real fucking hard time cause they hadn't had a fair fight in almost a century?
The west loves to make fun of Russia now but they're basically running a massive live fire exercise on NATO equipment and tactics in Ukraine right now. It's a lot like the Winter War imo. Even if it doesn't end in a decisive victory, Russia can't really lose against Ukraine, and like the Winter War they are going to learn a lot of lessons and adjust their doctrines for future conflicts accordingly.
Meanwhile it seems we didn't seem to learn anything from getting humiliated in Afghanistan a couple years ago and instead opted to just memory hole it on a national level.
I mean, there was the Franco-Prussian War and the Crimean War.
Granted, there was a huge-ass gulf of tech and tactics between then and WWI.
It's an analogy, being general
America had fought the civil war but they still refused to learn anything from it