It’s amazing they haven’t.
Not because of us.
We’ve been way out of line... Basically causing the war (NATO membership offer), escalating it, breaking numerous agreements. No one likes to talk about the ballistic missile treaty we withdrew from, the Minsk Memorandum of 2014, or the Budapest Accord, that would paint us as “liars.”.
No one wants to talk about how we are pressuring the Solomon Islands not to accept a Chinese offer for them to build a base there, and that’s 6,114 miles from our border and happening right now! No one wants to remember why we invaded Grenada (we didn’t want the Soviets in our back yard). There is no mention about the Cuban missile crisis where we took the world to the brink of nuclear war because the Soviets dared put missiles in Cuba where you have a 90 mile wide moat between them and us. No one mentions the Monroe Doctrine anywhere in the news... But we expect the Russians to accept a NATO country on their border!
At this point, we can only hope that the Russians really are no longer the power they once were and that our influence is so great that we can contain whatever shit they want to fling our way. We just performed a bad prison rape scene in them, with piss and shit everywhere. We are directly responsible for the lives of many Russians and they will want to return that favor.
Finding some asshole somewhere that wants to kill US forces or our presence in their country isn’t particularly hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_militias_in_Iraq (pick one- then arm, train and point where we’re at).
I figure the Russians are a bit preoccupied right now, but when they can, they will play the same game we played back on us. Let’s hope they are at a point where their influence and capabilities are so far below/behind ours (political, economic influence, military capabilities) that we can contain this. At this point the damage is done.
Do you think Vietnam built RPG-7s in the 60s?
Do you think Vietnam built MIG21 in the 60s?
https://www.wearethemighty.com/uploads/legacy/assets.rbl.ms/17762000/origin.jpg (this is the type we fought in Vietnam).
How about a radar guided SA-2 missile?
https://media.defense.gov/2009/Jun/05/2000558710/1200/1200/0/090605-F-1234P-016.JPG
Vietnam couldn’t build the tire for that jet. They were being armed and trained by the Russians that also had advisors on the ground. I just hope we don’t return to the era of decades long proxy wars across the planet.
