>>213700235
you don't grasp how fucking tiny this country is. our regular military is half of an infantry brigade in combat strength. we've got an part time national guard that's about a division in strength. neither of them is equipped or trained for the kind of war we'd have to fight to hold the russians in their current state.
unlike the Ukrainians, who had enough force mass to absorb the initial shock, defeat the Kyiv advance and then hold for long enough to figure out effective defensive methods, we don't have a buffer. the russians are not as good at using drones as the Ukrainians, but they're still much better than literally anyone else in the world, because they've been at war for 3 years. meanwhile our army hasn't even begun to make doctrinal adjustments to account for the fact that every single russian infantry platoon is now supported by an FPV team and everything on the battlefield is constantly being observed and tracked in real time.