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> The preceding insight is important to reflect upon. It implies that only the US is Russia’s military peer in this conflict since the former’s Western allies would have been unable to match the latter’s capabilities by proxy had it not been for America leading their joint effort. With this in mind, the prior innuendo can actually be qualified to claim that the US-led West as a whole is Russia’s true military peer since that de facto New Cold War bloc still can’t defeat Moscow despite several dozen countries striving to that end.

LOL. Russia is fighting _Ukraine_. You can call Ukraine a proxy if you want, but it's the only proxy in this war. Russia is in the war itself. Russia is fighting within a hundred kilometers of its own borders, with it's own army, its own doctrine, its own weapons industry, its own mobilized population -- against the Ukrainian army. Europe and NATO are supplying arms to Ukraine, but they aren't fighting this war. It is beyond obvious at this point that Russia's army would be annihilated in an actual war with NATO (not a "proxy"), given their abject showing against effing Ukraine.

I fully support reframing the failed invasion of Ukraine as a fight against NATO/"the West". It is critical that the Russian population fully adopts this perspective for their to be information conditions suitable for Russian leadership to accept defeat (without doing something insane, like launching nuclear weapons). So for that I applaud Russian propagandists such as the substack author here, and urge them to continue reiterating this line.

But holy heck, lines like this

> This provocative conclusion naturally leads to the question of why Russia’s tangible achievements aren’t more impressive if this single Great Power’s military capabilities are equal to the combined potential of several dozen of its opponents led by its only state-level military peer.

aren't doing the author any favors. Delusions of grandeur like that are only going to prevent the information conditions necessary in the population to avoid worst case scenarios for Russia.

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So that's not Polish, Romanian, and western mercs payed with USD from NATO that have been dying in Ukraine. Good to know.

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So it seems there are no Westerner in the field training the Ukranians in dealing with Himars?

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Proxy is getting training on the weapons being donated to them? *GASP*

I'll give you this, it's not clear that Russia's training of _their own army_ is as good as the on-the-fly training Ukrainians are getting on donated weapon systems. Which only highlights how absurdly bad this war is exposing the non-peer status of the Russian military.

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I've screen captured this so I can have lots of laughs at your expense, now and in the future.

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Sounds like those two Indian Analysist want to get on the Indian gravy train equivalent, or already are. Have you followed the money trail for them?

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