Why doesn’t Russia declare war on the US after all the Military Aid being sent to Ukraine?

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Because they don’t want to lose

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At no point has that stopped them in past military endeavors, including in Ukraine?

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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).

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There is no way russia thinks they can beat Nato in a conventional war. That is exactly what they think. Same with north Korea etc. Propaganda and disinformation are powerful tools to manipulate people.

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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.

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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.

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Upvoted for “toy box of death”.

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Right? I mean, even our hand-me-downs to our allies are solid. That’s proven. Ain’t no kill like overkill is the defense contractor motto and they deliver.

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And the best at losing wars

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I love this crazy tagline. It’s crazy that so many of you think Ukraines army could actually have stopped RU on is own.

Reality check kiddos. UK world have run out of ammo more than a year ago. NATO has been running the entirety of the war behind the scenes.

Should NATO stop sending billions of dollars in weapons and revoke access to salitlite imagery and intelligence they are fucked. Even today Russia would claw back every single reclaimed lane mass and finally take over the cities.

You people are delusional thinking the Ukrainian army could win a sustained fight.

I’m 100% in support of Ukraine, bit this is NATO and frankly the US winning this war using Ukraine lives on the ground.

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It’s crazy that so many of you think Ukraines army could actually have stopped RU on is own.

And who exactly thinks that?

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I’m 100% in support of Ukraine, bit this is NATO and frankly the US winning this war using Ukraine lives on the ground.

I mean, you can see it that way, but NATO is only sending equipment. The people on the ground are still Ukrainians (and a miniscule number of foreign volunteers). Logistics is important, but it’s still only one part of winning a war.

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NATO is effectively running the entire command and war. They are using NATO intelligence that NATO chooses to send. They are using NATO designed weapons that NATO allows them to use. They are training units to use NATO tactics. The EU/US, so basically NATO, and still mostly the US btw (for all off this), is sending billions in economic aid. They do not listen, that goes away. They do not have the resources to fight a massive country like RU.

You are living in fantasy land if you think a small country with a GDP of 156B is going to win a war with a nuclear armed power with a GDP of 1.5T. It’s like you people just ignore the first week of this shit where RU forces were shelling multiple cities. They were fighting for the core of their country 1W into the invasion. And power to them. They fought like hell and fend them off.

Then the US stepped in, started sending weapons, and UK/ FR/US intelligence while fucking Germany sent helmets and made some last ditch efforts to justify nordstreams continued use.

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Because this is like the biggest strongest kid in school and all of their 6ft + tall 250 pound friends handing out sticks to the bully’s victim so they can hit back and the 5 ft nothing 150 pound bully decides “you know what? Id like to fight these people directly while im bullying this other kid”

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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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