NATO/US Military Build up in Eastern Europe-Russian borders

Russia is way ahead of you, it has agreed with Iran on a rail link through Iran to the Persian gulf so Russia can ship goods through the Caspian Sea to Iran to the rest of Asia or Africa bypassing the Black Sea/Med route.

They have money for this. They have no money for farmers.

No money for farmers and no money for nurses who saved them from Covid... what they need to spend money on is exercises that will prove conclusively that HATO can defeat Russia as long as Russia follows the rules in the exercise and shows no initiative and does not use those weapons we can't shoot down or air defences we can't penetrate that will destroy our air power which we so heavily rely on.

We will fire blanks in the exercise because we have no live ammo left and wont be getting more for some time...

What I find most interesting is that HATO appears to have conceded Ukrainian territory to Russia... if you look a the map shown Russian territory includes the Crimea and the four regions in the east of Ukraine that have joined the Russian Federation... that is rather interesting and important...

But what will be more important is how far west that border is going to move over the next year or so.

Russia should be building an extensive railway network and working on constructing more transport aircraft like An-124 Ruslan to ferry stuff faster across 6000 miles of land. With a 400 ton take off weight it should be able to transport stuff like cars and other freight for cheap across Russia.. 1000s of those will literally cancel the need for ships in Russia and across the world when it comes to Russian shipments.

Even if they develop a plane that can carry 250 tons like the An-225 and carry that 5,000km, a single cargo ship could carry 1,000 times that... 10,000 times that, and yet still be cheaper than 1,000 of those planes. Shipping is vastly more efficient than flying simply because of the volume of material shipped and the fuel useage in doing so...

With their investments in icebreakers and new roads and rail links and airfields and upgrading ports and ship building facilities they are expanding their ability to trade with the rest of the world and I think both are going to massively benefit from this.

It is important to look at actual force levels rather than paper force levels... as marcellogos post above points out the US numbers are not exactly what you think... and what they could possibly send to Europe to face Russia is another matter too because they will also need aircraft in the Middle East and Asia and of course in the US itself to defend US airspace.

I mean if the US wants to join in on the Ukraine conflict to save their nazi brothers then they have to realise that the Russians might start launching conventionally armed missiles in their direction too.

According to that list above 110 F-22s would be likely used in the US with 55 on each coast perhaps... which is not a lot... the Russians can do what HATO is doing now and look at where their air defence planes are and send a few drones to test defences and reaction times and then launch real cruise missiles into the gaps they find.

There is still the ENTIRE NATO

An entire HATO that has taken 2.5 years to struggle to send a dozen old F-16s to the Ukraine.

Who is going to fly their aircraft close to Russian air defences first?

Plus fighting Ukraine is one thing but fighting all of HATO means the gloves are off so airfields nuked and military bases nuked too.... and with hypersonic attack missiles the vast majority of them will hit their targets... in comparison less than 20% of HATO missiles are likely to reach their target areas...

The Ukraine conflict, whether you believe it or not, is a rescue mission to save Ukrainian Russian speakers from a nazi dictatorship.

A conflict with HATO is the start of WWIII so population centres become legitimate targets in countries that tolerate the armies of the US and other countries with no legitimate reason to be there.

The western doctrine was attack, it was colonially based and involved making things mobile so you can flit from third world country to third world country seizing resources and putting down uprisings by pretending they are defending the world from communism, when in fact it was all white european colonialism that was the problem.

The Soviets and Russians naturally developed defences to defend themselves... it is pretty obvious who the actual aggressor was.

I don't speak German either....