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Ukraine And Russia - It Is A Math Problem
So math explains why Russia will win in Ukraine?
Uh huh, riiiiiiiiiiiiight. That's totes easy.
So, on what day did (will) that occur?
It wasn't on Day Three.
Or Thirty.
Or Day One Hundred and Thirty.
We're pushing Day 200, and they're nowhere close.
Day 300??
Day 400??
Day 600???
How many brigades (and rubles) can Russia burn through before they have a replacement problem? Did they maybe blow through that point last April?
While you're up, whip out your Whizbang War Calculator, and calculate some victories for me:
Now do the math for the Soviet Union vs. Afghanistan in 1979, and show us mathematically how that worked, and why the Soviet Union was bound to win.
The math can't be wrong, can it?
Then do U.S. vs. Afghanistan in 2003.
Then do Iraq vs. the U.S. in 1990.
Then do U.S. vs. North Vietnam in 1965.
Stop me if you've heard this one.
Then show the class your foolproof calculations for Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia vs. Israel. Any of the last five times up to bat, 1948-1973, inclusive.
Try Germany vs. Russia, 1941.
Try Napoleon vs. Russia, 1812.
England vs. the Colonials, 1776.
Then do Spanish Armada vs. England, 1588.
Leonidas vs. Xerxes, 480 B.C.
David vs. the Philistines, ca. 1100 BC.
Gideon vs. Midian, ca. 1200 B.C.
Show all work.
We'll be waiting over here while you face plant, again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
For the brighter students, plug in Napoleon's maxim:
"In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one."
Wars aren't won on accounting ledgers.
A couple of other military maxims for the brighter lot:
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."
"When you achieve victory, be sure to tell the enemy."
Anybody telling you otherwise is either an idiot, or picking your pocket.
Next question.