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Why doesn't Russia declare war on the US?
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Because they don't want to lose
At no point has that stopped them in past military endeavors, including in Ukraine?
Its possible for a nation to overestimate their military might. Look at some of the US's embarrassing wars when they were forced into Guerrilla warfare. But there are still limits. There is no way russia thinks they can beat Nato in a conventional war. Its why their strategy is around developing technologies that maintain nuclear effectiveness (though I think anyone looking at the numbers has to have some serious doubt about how nuclear capable russia really is).
They can hardly fight the war they are in, what would the point of getting the biggest military power on the planet involved directly?
Russia has not a sliver of a chance fighting the US in a conventional war and nobody wants a nuclear war.
Yeah, at this point Russia wouldn't even stand against Europe, let alone America's toy box of death. The only thing keeping everyone is the danger of nukes, because that's somebody nobody wants to risk even if we have meassures. You never know what could happen. But a conventional war? nah.
Because of alliances. We have them and Russia doesn’t. Our military is massive and strong but it won’t work if nobody lets you inside their borders or sea and airspace.
Community is stronger than weapons.
Russia can't even beat Ukraine with their surplus second rate western weapons. NATO, because that's who the fight would be against, would destroy Russia. If Russia used nukes everyone would die. It's a loss for Russia either way. No one outside of Russia believes that Russia even had a hint of a chance against NATO. The Ukraine war has made that very clear.
Getting the US there on foot either wipes out Russia or the planet gets blown up.
Because there would be no Russia left. They have issues with 80s and 90s tech in Ukraine. Imagine if they had yo go against the new shit. Oh yeah also NATO is a thing and European Texas (Poland) is next to them, not to mention Germany finland, and France.
They also are quite afraid of where China will stand on that.
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Because it would be suicide. Russia is fond of saber rattling and "oh-so-serious" threats about nukes, but Article 5 means they're never attacking a NATO power. They don't actually want to escalate either (I assume - it'd be catastrophically, titanically idiotic) but like a very, very small dog, have to yap loudly so nobody notices.
And over military aid? Nah. Best they can do is "punish" it by keeping sulking and whining hypocritically, same as they have been all along.
Simple answer? There is not a single army or military in the world that stands a chance against the United States in active conflict that doesn't just nuke us. I'm not prideful or boasting but nobody has the tanks, anti mine armored vehicles, planes, aircraft carriers, or airplanes that we do. Hell Russia doesn't even really have tanks anymore. We could easily decimate them in a war without nukes. It would be all air superiority, drones, and naval bombardment. We would cut off their supplies to the Kremlin and flatten any cities that showed even slight troop buildup. It would be genocide.
China is a joke. Just because of the size of their men, and the laughably cheap gear they give them. It would be like fighting against women and children. Look up their new rifles, even in promo videos for these shit ass rifles they keyhole bullets (bullets shoot out of the barrel and tumble rather then fly with the point facing forward) meaning they couldn't pierce body armor due to their surface area upon impact.
Chinese military is a joke. Russian military is a joke. Americans are laughing.
If nukes were out of the pictures, I think it would take about two months for a single carrier strike group in the black sea to mop up this entire Ukraine war. Maybe two carrier groups.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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