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Putin entered the encirclement of the NATO bloc
Russia's TASS news agency reports that Putin has personally arrived in the Kaliningrad region. The state is a Russian enclave surrounded by NATO members Poland and Lithuania.
This is especially true when the 90,000 NATO heavy military groups are gathering in Poland and the three Baltic countries to hold large-scale military exercises. Putin's tough move is indeed extraordinary.
Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königsberg, covers an area of 15,000 square kilometers and was historically the capital of East Prussia. It was occupied by the Soviet Red Army during World War II, and after the war it became Soviet territory under the Potsdam Agreement and renamed Kaliningrad.
Strategically, Kaliningrad is also a Russian enclave, bordered by Poland to the south, Lithuania to the east and north, and a 148-kilometer-long Baltic coastline to the west. It is surrounded by the NATO bloc, so to speak, and it can be said that it is attacked on all sides.
The real battlefield between NATO and Russia may be the Suva Corridor, which is the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad Oblast and Belarus. At the same time, it is also a key defense area of the NATO bloc.
Poland, Lithuania and other NATO countries are really fighting with Russia and Belarus, and Putin's defense of Kaliningrad will be a big problem. Poland will most likely attack Kaliningrad. When the flames of war were ignited, this geographical location was naturally a strategic point for the Polish offensive.
Russia, of course, knows what Poland wants to do, and Poland has introduced 500 Seahorses, 1,000 K-2 Panther tanks, and 96 AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships. Not at all for the sake of aiding Ukraine. Rather, the build-up around Kaliningrad cannot but arouse strategic suspicions in Russia.
If, NATO launches an attack on the Kaliningo enclave, then in order to maintain Russia's strategic security posture. Russia will certainly launch a tactical nuclear strike on Poland in order to salvage the entire strategic posture. And Russia has already begun to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus in 2023.
In the confrontation between NATO and Russia, Kaliningrad is the real trigger that can trigger a full-scale war. Due to the peculiarities of its geographical location, Kaliningrad has always been a dagger that Russia has inserted into the heart of Europe.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that there is a strategic danger in Kaliningrad, "there is undoubtedly a danger, a danger at the strategic level." Countries that are full of Russophobia are deploying more and more military facilities, servicemen, military equipment to their own territory. ”
It seems that Putin's visit to Kaliningrad this time is to inspect the combat readiness of the local Russian army. When it comes to a real fight, the air defense of the ground forces of the United States and NATO is basically the responsibility of the air force, and the air defense accompanied by field battles is garbage. There is no field air defense to support in the whole of NATO. And the perverted accompanying air defense system of the Russian Army also did not count on the support of the Air Force from the very beginning.
Once, the Russian missile strikes the airfield, the air defense of the Aerospace Forces, the air defense of the air defense missile is launched. As a result, the US and NATO air forces were limited in their sorties. Well, NATO and the Russian Army face off against each other, on the battlefield at a distance of 100-500 km. The US and NATO land forces, which have weak artillery, can only be bombed unilaterally.
The largest military exercise of the NATO bloc in 35 years, the 90,000-strong army has only 135 tanks, 533 armored vehicles, more than 80 warplanes, helicopters and drones. With such a little equipment, it will not be enough to break through the first line of defense in Zaporozhye, and the tanks will be wiped out. What an embarrassment it is for NATO to now have ground combat forces.
In fact, Ukraine is already the strongest ground warfare force that NATO can come up with. The rest of the Polish, British, Romanian, Hungarian, and French armies were weaker. Is the West really ready to fight?
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Is the Russian-Ukrainian war a rookie pecking at each other?
Now many netizens believe that the Russian-Ukrainian war has no torrent of steel, no missile washing, no carpet attack, and no large-depth assault, only soldiers burying mines, digging trenches, and throwing toy planes at each other, which has not played the military technology of the 21st century at all, and is completely rookies pecking at each other.
You can say that the Russian-Ukrainian war has not reached the world's top level in terms of modernization and high standards, but you cannot say that the combat effectiveness of the Russian and Ukrainian armies is very low. Needless to say, Russia, the famous "fighting nation", the fighting willpower is by no means at an ordinary level. And Ukraine, as the second leader of the Soviet Union, is naturally not a vegetarian.
Now the combat effectiveness of Russia and Ukraine on the battlefield and the corresponding will to fight are already at a high level. Russia and Ukraine are fighting hard-fought battles, and in this kind of chess battle, it is difficult to crush each other with absolute superiority. As long as one is willing to defend and the other is willing to attack, the two sides will be arguing endlessly.
We have also seen that on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, often a village will be repeatedly fought for countless times, and even if this area is reduced to ashes, the two sides can still continue to fight in the ruins. Since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the casualties on both sides have been very large, and in the final analysis, they still think that they are fighting for their lives. Therefore, the Russian-Ukrainian war is by no means a rookie pecking at each other.
On the surface, Russia's opponent is only Ukraine, but in fact Putin is confronting the entire Western camp. Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, many technological innovations brought about by the information revolution, such as financial warfare, the Internet, drones, Starlink, and hypersonic missiles, have been used on a large scale on the battlefield for the first time.
The Russia-Ukraine war that started in 2022 is very different from the wars of 1991 and 2003, both in terms of operational scale and emerging technologies. As for the missile scrubbing and carpet attack mentioned by netizens, it can only happen if one side occupies the air supremacy advantage and can crush the opponent in all directions. This is also the illusion that Saddam Hussein was defeated in the Gulf War.
The Russia-Ukraine war has made more countries realize that no matter how advanced your weapons are, you still need to have enough troops to supplement the ground forces. The scene of the Russia-Ukraine war, in fact, few countries in the world can support such a large-scale war. Its high level lies in the fact that it has a high level of mobilization, a mobilization system of this magnitude that even the United States cannot do.
High-level economic self-sustaining power, whether it is Russia or Ukraine, there is no economic collapse because of the war; high-level infantry warfare, Russia and Ukraine have developed the latest three-dimensional new tactics of infantry + guided artillery fire + drones on a front of more than 1,000 kilometers, which is definitely the world's leading version.