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Numbers (airforcemag.com) IMHO: Overall the US airforce is far superior. The Iraqi air campaign saw something like 2/3rds of the ammunition was expensive guided types, and the force output was 700 sorties a day. The Russians in Ukraine put out 300-200 sorties/day typically with less use of guided ammunition. I think in a conventional, non-nuclear war US airpower would be several times stronger. However if the Russians mobilized for war their artillery and tank forces are far more numerous and they would have conscripted infantry. It seems like their strategy is to focus on strong missile forces, electronic warfare/Anti-aircraft (like long ranged SAMs S-500), so basically they would be fundamentally defensive while the US would be offensive. The bulk of the real damage on the ground would be done with Russian artillery, supplemented by missile strikes. Russian anti-aircraft power would be a major threat to US air operations. https://www.benning.army.mil/Armor/eARMOR/content/issues/2017/Spring/ARMOR Spring 2017 edition.pdf In terms of artillery, the US does respect Russian artillery. Overall it appears that Russian artillery is superior to US artillery but is hampered by inefficiency, they use too much unguided ammunition and the results in Ukraine are too slow. The Russians have a lot of artillery drones, the skies in Ukraine are filled with them but they are weak compared to the US in high end UAV. Russian tank forces were respected for their great mass but Ukraine has damaged their reputation. It appears that the tank- neither US or Russian will no longer be a decisive weapon in the future, there are powerful anti-tank weapons everywhere now. American professional infantry forces are not only much larger than the Russian but higher quality. But in a total war situation, the Russians will have superiority in reservists and conscripts if the US doesn't conscript anyone. If the US conscripts we will be stronger. US logistics and naval power is far superior to Russian, as the Russians rely on railroad troops and railroads.

The Russian artillery offensive seems to have ended on July 19th. So it was July 6-19, or almost 2 weeks of shooting. It is likely that they are low on ammunition right now and reloading.

Trump the dear leader likes Putin and Russia. It seems like conservatives/republicans tend to be more favorable to Russia from a cultural POV, kind of like they are perceived as the last bastion of Christian values left in the West. Also there is an isolationist viewpoint that the US should leave NATO and let the Europeans fend for themselves. Leaving NATO would require the Russians to not be a threat. This would lead to a small defense sector over here and less MIC fabricated wars. Trump also held these views.

Finland IISS 2021: Pretty well armed for such a tiny population. Best armed by far in the Baltics. ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES MBT 100 Leopard 2A6 (100 Leopard 2A4 in store) ARTILLERY 672 SP 122mm 49: 13 K9 Thunder; 36 2S1 Gvozdika (PsH 74) TOWED 288: 122mm 234 D-30 (H 63); 155mm 54 K 83/ GH-52 (K 98) MRL 56: 122mm 34 RM-70; 227mm 22 M270 MLRS MOR 279+: 81mm Krh/71; 120mm 261 Krh/92; SP 120mm 18 XA-361 AMOS

I don't envy political life, to always be obsessed with what others think of you and operating in the realm of delusion & fantasies. The trade-off for having wealth and influence is too steep. Sounds like hell to me. It is better to be a hidden billionaire, influencing things from the shadows lol.

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I think anyone who plays this game should not use summons. It is equivalent to cheating. Finished reviewing the main quests. Overall, there is one significant flaw with Elden Ring. The art direction for the first 2/3rds of the areas is simply not as good as the final 1/3rd. The final 1/3rd is about as good as Dark Souls 3 and also where the developers put the most work in. Lingrave, and the early areas feel too empty and are missing immersion. Also, from an art point of view there is often the feeling that they randomly placed assets together (items, backgrounds, enemies, etc.) and it doesn't make a cohesive whole. A lot of the enemy placement is odd- the enemies don't give the impression that they are naturally part of the environment. This was the big problem with Dark Souls 2 but the next 3 FROMSOFT games did not have this problem.

France and UK- both not prepared for large scale warfare either, just like Germany. Too few tanks and artillery, barely anything to send to Ukraine. France, 2021 IISS: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES MBT 222 Leclerc ARTILLERY 265+ SP 155mm 108: 32 AU-F-1; 76 CAESAR TOWED 155mm 12 TR-F-1 MRL 227mm 13 M270 MLRS MOR 132+: 81mm LLR 81mm; 120mm 132 RT-F-1 United Kingdom, 2021 IISS: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES MBT 227 Challenger 2 ARTILLERY 598 SP 155mm 89 AS90 TOWED 105mm 114 L118 Light Gun MRL 227mm 35 M270B1 MLRS MOR 81mm 360 L16A1

US ground forces 2021 (IISS), Tanks and artillery. Even the US doesn't have that much compared to Russia. Air force is a different story, the US is far superior here. No wonder Ukraine is not getting the 3000-2000 artillery pieces it needs. The US, the most funded military in the world, only has some 4,300 heavy artillery pieces itself... US Army and Army Reserve: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES MBT 2,509: 750 M1A1 SA Abrams; 1,605 M1A2 SEPv2 Abrams; 154 M1A2C Abrams; (ε3,700 more M1A1/A2 Abrams in store) ARTILLERY 5,469 SP 155mm 1,023: 900 M109A6; 123 M109A7 (ε500 more M109A6 in store) TOWED 1,339: 105mm 821 M119A2/3; 155mm 518 M777A2 MRL 227mm 600: 375 M142 HIMARS; 225 M270A1 MLRS MOR 2,507: 81mm 990 M252; 120mm 1,076 M120/ M1064A3; SP 120mm 441 M1129 Stryker MC US Marine Corps: ARTILLERY 1,452 TOWED 812: 105mm: 331 M101A1; 155mm 481 M777A2 MRL 227mm 40 M142 HIMARS MOR 600: 81mm 535 M252; SP 81mm 65 LAV-M; 120mm (49 EFSS in store for trg)

Russian army, equipped with silencers, with helicopters overheard. The sniper has this buttplate that many soldiers have. He removes it and uses it as a matt while lying prone. Some PMC Wagner mercenaries

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