"We" didn't. Some people did, because Russia invested more money into propaganda than into an actual army. Russian army could compete with almost any single army in the word in terms of numbers and technology, but even though that gives you an edge in war, it doesn't win it. Training, strategy, tactics, logistics and intelligence does. And apparently, they suck at those even worse than we thought. to be fair, NATO provides at least training, intelligence and technology to Ukraine, that is like 50% of success by itself.
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to be fair, manpower meant something back then. How else did the Chinese stop the US from deleting North Korea during the Korean War? Because they kept tossing bodies of their men into the fray.
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I always was a quite interested in military tech and I knew that the russian army is while having large numbers pretty outdated compared to the US and Nato armies. But holy shit with the seen corruption and incompetence they are just nothing more than a large 3rd world army...
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Maybe they even were the 2nd best Army. But they planned this Invasion completely stupid based on wrong fundamental assumptions, such as the will and ability of ukr soldiers to fight. It's like buying a Ferrari and go offroad
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Nukes. Basically they have enough nukes to blow up the planet.
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Propaganda, man. Just as people used to think that USSR was a superpower, but instead turned out it was a living off gas and oil. And it collapsed at the same times as the prices for gas and oil on the world market.
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Russians right now
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They really had an armada in ww2 and they popped Tsar bomb to show off. Putin also dropped here & there news about stuff, like a rocket flying an unpredictable path so it's more difficult to shot down, military development were on, like SU-57, etc, etc. and their secret services (ex KGB FSB, GRU) really works well. So "the world" have had every reason to think it's the 2nd if not _the_ strongest army Putin has his hands on. But now it's obvious this all was a bluff, yet they faked it so long even they started to believe it, and for some reason they thought UKR will be happy to join RU so prepared for a parade, not a war. Additionally, UKR would still have been smashed into the ground without NATO gear, so they weren't wrong about they can win this after all... IMO the reason they ignored the danger of US shting in their plate was, now they are both "nuclear superpowers", so they'd be afraid to interfere - even though there was Iran, Iraq, Syria, *istans... so major miscalculation there
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Well to be honest he hadn't seen them in a fight with anyone who could fight back in a while
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WHAT A COMPLETE JOKE!! NAZI RAT 🐀 PUTIN IS THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD 🌎 LIBERATION IS WELL UNDERWAY AND ALL ILLEGALLY TAKEN TERRORITY WILL ALL BE RETAKEN!! UKRAINE 🇺🇦 WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED!!
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Because there was no way to assess their army capabilities other than the publicly available information presented by them and commented on by western analysts.
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They still have more then 13000 nukes . once they hat more than 22000
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They were bluffing, probably for decades.
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who are "we"? I have folowed russian actions since 2014 and seeing the propoganda videos, the filming were people run like in movies, jump into tanks, firing at random things with soviet uniforms, folowing NAvalny who for years have unmasked the brutal corruption russia has... The same people, who think vaccines will kill you, belived that
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China
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"It was back when we didn't know the Russians were incompetent" -Hank Hill
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An idiot writes
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RuZZain propaganda VS. RuZZian military
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At what point did you think nato and russia should fight eachother
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