What do you expect with a military overwhelmed with social engineering. I will assure each of you that this will end over night. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. This crap is just about over.
In addition. The film Jar head is on right now. Find it. Watch it and you may see the future. We have women and children here and we love them.
The next Republican president will do two or three things to put Putin back in his box.
1. Provide long-range escort fighters or staggered fighter protection via NATO bases.
2. Suddenly shoulder-fired AA missiles are going to start popping up in the Ukraine and Syria, in the hands of “friendlies” who are being attacked by the Russians.
After losing about 5-10 planes, Putin will get the message.
In Afghanistan, our Stingers (and the British BlowPipe) missiles shot down over 50, and maybe as many as 80 Soviet jets, bombers, and helicopters in a short period of time.
This denied the Soviets air superiority re bombing targets on the ground, and air/troop mobility, esp. of the Spetnaz troops in the mountains. This deprived them of the ability to land on the top of mountains and large hills, thus gaining a firing ability against the Mujaheedin below.
That is why either Gorbachev or Yeltsin (or both)started troop removals in the late 80s. Without air superiority, they were doomed to terrible ambushes on the ground and knew it.