NATO could occupy russia, granted it would be costly, but we have the manpower and resources to do it. It would take a very very large army yes.
And the massing of such forces presents a juicy target for Russian forces to obliterate... and unlike during the cold war, they would not need nuclear weapons to cause massive carnage...
Assuming HATO could gather large conventional forces with large amounts of conventional equipment that would be needed to give them any meaning at all, how long would support for this conflict remain if Russia struck such forces with cluster munitions and killed tens of thousands in one strike?
If you remove nukes from the equation, the Russians cannot defend their territory fully from just fucking ukraine, and you clowns think they can do that against NATO throwing the kitchen sink at em.
You can't remove nukes from the situation, because no matter what Russian territory you choose to attack the Russians are going to respond.
You think all of HATO is even going to turn up?
Finland is unlikely to join in because that puts their entire border with Russia at risk and their population centres are horribly vulnerable. The Baltic states are horribly vulnerable to being invaded and taken out of the game. Poland is talking big but, but that is not new, and there are a few dissenting voices even there...
The most vocal supporters seem to be the ones furthest from the front line like the Dutch and the UK... used to be lions and are now mice...
You do realize genius one of the main reasons Russia went into Ukraine was to PREVENT it from joining NATO because it would then be to late and one of their demands has always been "Ukraine never joins NATO"
And do you think if the west gives Ukraine... or what is left of the Ukraine full HATO membership that Russia will withdraw its forces and apologise?
There is no world in which Russia is able to beat NATO in a conventional war and I am not insulting them for that, Replace the US with Rusia and would loose also because that's just waaaaay too much to fight against at once.
Russia was supposed to collapse with the sanctions. HATO super weapons were supposed to cut through Russian forces like a Scythe through wheat. They only gave them 31 Abrams tanks because that is all they thought they would need. They have been so very wrong about so many things but you think they are a superior force?
When their airfields are hit and their AWACS and JSTARS and recon drones start falling from the skies and have to be withdrawn or they will be lost, when the optics in their satellites only show fuzzy images and their radar is jammed, do you think they will do what they have been doing and planning absolutely mental fucking stupid hairbrained attacks on Russian targets like try to capture the Kursk NPP or invade Crimea or blow up the crimean bridge, or maybe seize Snake Island?
HATO planners are fucking morons with no idea... they think like Bond villians... and are about as successful.
I am insulting them because the nazi contagen has effected them and now they are clearly the bad guys... you can see it in western media who think putting bombs in phones and pagers and setting them all off at once is a good thing and not terrorism. In a crowded market... on a bus... in an aircraft, on a train, in a movie theatre, anywhere the public can go... they detonated bombs... if Iran did that it would be identified as terrorism... but ironically Iran doesn't do shit like that...
How does it feel to realise you are the bad guys... so keep defending them... remain in denial... do as you are told because if you disagree you are putins puppet... there is no discussion and no room for alternative views... freedom of speech as long as you say what we want you to say and think what we want you to think... what year is it.... 1984 perhaps?
I guess this satiric answer is enough to understand that the west has no more manpower for anything. Most of men in the west are either drugged, pussies or too lazy to fight a war. They don't even have enough of men to have enough workers for important daylife jobs.
Agree, but I think the plan is to cut europe off from cheap energy and raw materials and create a collapsing economy situation for more and more countries there... add in some immigrants escaping the war in the Ukraine... more to come before winter arrives this year "Winter is coming" (thanks to Game of Drones...), and perhaps life in Europe will become so deplorable that joining the armed forces to play video games might appeal to some members of the community...
First off you clueless individual. We took over the main population centers right away, we chased the Taliban into the mountains with ease, we didn't want to occupy every single inch, we didn't need to.
That is what every invader of Afghanistan says and does... and they all leave with their tail between their legs...
HATO supplied more equipment and weapons and ammo to the Taliban than they have to many of their allies...
Why would we fight them in the Pacific?
Do you think Russia will only fight you in Europe?
Queensbury rules perhaps?
The US has military bases around the world and its connection to the world is via the ocean... I would say there are a few major underwater cables that will be cut that immediately effect US communications with Europe and the rest of the world... and that would just be a start.
1. They would try but they would be getting pummels by air power and cruise missiles daily.
How many US carriers would they need to sink to make them back off out of range... I am guessing one.
4. Russian AD Will be hunted down and eliminated again, their AD cannot stop Ukraine fully, it stands no chance against NATO it would take a bit but would be done and these complex launchers are hard to replace not to mention the factories will be targeted right away.
It took Ukraine 3 years to take out an S-400 TEL.. a single one... The Ukraine has never flown more than half a dozen aircraft at one time in one place... the numbers of HATO aircraft flying around is a target rich environment for Russian air defence systems that can operate in optical mode...
HATO didn't even operate below 8km altitude in Kosovo because they were afraid of MANPADS. Igla-1 would be dangerous enough but Igla-S and Verba will clear the skies of helicopters and CAS aircraft very quickly...
Russia doesn't win this, it's out produced, out manned.
Out produced in what? Medals? Gender conversion surgeries?
And the thing you ignore the most is that Russia has already clearly stated that a conflict for Russian territory against HATO is a threat to their existence so nuclear weapons would be used.
Is the US and France and the UK going to use nukes to defend Poland or the Baltic states that have attacked Russia?
Did they rush to defend Georgia?
Force NATO into wartime production and are how fast stuff flys off the lines, we have all the resources needed despite fanboys saying otherwise.
War production mode would push their living standards down into the toilet and severe austerity programmes is going to cause a lot of anger and problems over a conflict that the US is driving and pushing the Europeans into.
A Russian/NATO war comes down to attrition and that's a war NATO wins, sure losses Will be immense for both sides but the Russians could not sustain the losses, NATO could
Yeah, because Europe was well known for standing up to the Germans in the early 1940s against the Germans... that western front went on for years, while on the eastern front it was a walk in the park wasn't it?
The west stirred itself up into so much hate for the Russians there was no other option on the eastern front except to fight or die, while on the western front countries folded like high quality origami paper that has been pre scored for the purpose of folding easily.
Forgetting history leads to serious delusions and separation from reality.
25 years ago you might have gotten a significant portion of the Russian population to join the western side against whomever was in power to overthrow them and replace them with some CIA tool, but now the west has revealed its true russophobic nature and I don't think you will get a lot of support for your proposed attacks.