Talk About Tennis 2.0

Also knowing what we know now I wonder which is the real 2nd strongest army in the world (any nuclear weapons aside).

Why would you doubt China? They have the manpower, the ease to replace them (and the immorality to abuse them), and certainly their technological capabilities must be better than the Russian's.

We haven't seen them in action, have we? Clearly they must be better than Russia, but are they actually better than say Japan or France on a neutral ground? It's not that obvious...

China would be vulnerable to a naval blockade and their electronics are still a decade behind the Western alliance. Difference is that they seem to be catching up instead of regressing like Russia did.

We also haven't seen the French or the Japanese in action in a long time (which is good)
Blockading China through a navy would be tough. That is a very long coast.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:54 pm We also haven't seen the French or the Japanese in action in a long time (which is good)

Yes, but we have seen Western military equipment in action often enough. Japanese indeed not, so it's a pure guess.

When Russia says they're retreating from somewhere, I'd take it with a big grain of salt. They also said for a long time that "No, no - we're not going to invade Ukraine. Of course not."
Among about a million other lies...

Yes, but not this time. Kherson salient will be no more in as little as 48 h.

It happened even faster. Ukrainian army already in downtown Kherson and I suspect there are no more Russians left on the right bank of Dniepr. Big victory for Ukraine. Kherson was the most important city conquered by Russians in 2022.

There are so many videos posted on Twitter of the celebrations.