Right, and the elephant in the room is that Ukraine started the war with equivalents of all the systems the west sent. All of those got destroyed, and it was obvious that the ones the west sends would also be destroyed the same way the ones they inherited from USSR were. The whole narrative was based on the idea that western weapons are superior to Soviet weapons. Now that’s been conclusively shown to be false. Western weapons burn just the same, and they turned out to be less effective in many ways.
And the thing that doesn’t get discussed much is that Russia has more of everything. So, if any of these types of weapons were actually game changers then Russia would still win because they have more of them. Turns out that in the end the thing that matters the most is just plain old artillery and being able to produce enough shells to keep firing it.
Right, and the elephant in the room is that Ukraine started the war with equivalents of all the systems the west sent. All of those got destroyed, and it was obvious that the ones the west sends would also be destroyed the same way the ones they inherited from USSR were. The whole narrative was based on the idea that western weapons are superior to Soviet weapons. Now that’s been conclusively shown to be false. Western weapons burn just the same, and they turned out to be less effective in many ways.
And the thing that doesn’t get discussed much is that Russia has more of everything. So, if any of these types of weapons were actually game changers then Russia would still win because they have more of them. Turns out that in the end the thing that matters the most is just plain old artillery and being able to produce enough shells to keep firing it.