Based on Power ratings, America will likely be overtaken by Russia by the end of July.
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Fair enough on the sources front but I think those small differences in actuality are far larger than you might think and of course may have been radically altered by Russia being in a state of war. While I'd want to check stats prior to Ukraine War I'd imagine the gap would have been much larger. If it takes Russia going total war to rival American peacetime capability then American wartime capability far exceeds Russia's. Russias military wartime budget as of 2023 was $84 billion compared to America's 842 Billion dollars
Furthermore Russia hasn't exactly been winning the Ukraine War, for a country supposedly going to surpass the US in military power their currently engaged in literal trench warfare. Ukraine can be excused for lacking modern manovere Warfare capabilties Russia cannot.
Indeed Russia has been forced to use outdated tactics in the conflict. As reported by Wagner no less(when it was still an active fighting force) Russian military would use human wave tactics against Ukraine lines obviously leading to high casualty rates. Akin to Germany during WW1 they sent their best troops to engage the trench lines as shock troopers further leading to heavy casualties. This is not a sign of Russia being the most well trained and experience fighting force on the planet. Sure they have first hand experience in modern combat but that doesn't do much good when your troops keep dying before garnering much battlefield experience forcing you to conscript more troops from Siberia so the Moscow Metropolitans don't kick up a fuss when their children die to drone strike. Hell Russian generals have been dying in droves, thanks to outdated Soviet doctrine necessitating putting generals right on the front lines, right in killing distance for Ukrainian drones or missiles.
Also there is a major discrepancy between what Russia claims to be able to do and what it can. You hear talk of Russian superweapons like the Nuclear drone which they claimed would be able to engulf the British Isles in a massive tsunami. Yet they cannot even field their supposed next generation main battle tank the T-14 Armata on the battlefield in suitable quantities whilst the Su-57 the Russian jet fighter intended to go up against Americas best, being F-22 and F-35 only has from 15-35 fighters and there are even more conservative estimates. Compared to 187 F-22's and 450 F-35's. Russia doesn't even have air superiority in Ukraine, both themselves and the Ukrainians are forced to fly sorties in low-altitudes to survive SAM attacks.
I'll add sources in other post, I'll admit I heavily misjudged you and I apologise. Indeed I thought you were joking.
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Budgets:
I used 2024 budget accidently 2023 was $773 billion.
Russias:
Russia spending over $85 billion on military this year: Report (newsweek.com)
Trench Warfare
What Trench Warfare on Ukraine’s Front Line Looks Like - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Human Wave tactics
Russian Mercenaries’ Human Wave Tactics Push Back
Ukrainian Troops In Soledar (forbes.com)
Getting late for me now so will update this tomorrow with more sources and sources for everything else. Lot of it is from memory, I've been keenly following this conflict and have remembered a lot of what I have read.
When argument:
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Power rating went from anime to military power?
Russia alone cant beat ukraine with a fuck ton of western weaponry (Which doesn't even come close to the modern equipment in the us stockpile), so imagine it fighting against the strongest military power in human history 😭
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Pretty far from the truth. Id believe it if russia was replaced by china here
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Good joke! Russia doesn't have any external support other than from China and North Korea, and we all know the budget of communist countries are a joke on the modern era. The most support Russia will even get will most likely be diplomatic support, but that's about it. Their naval force is seriously weakened; so much that their only Naval Carrier spends more time on forts and reparations than in open water. It also doesn't help a lot the fact that most of Europe has cut all relations and commercial trade with Russia, and also made multiple naval blockades to isolate them from the West hemisphere.
I think you should change your information source one of these days. Could help you a lot, y'know.
What do you think?