# How would the US fare in invading Ukraine?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-the-us-fare-in-invading-ukraine/964547
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 17, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-the-us-fare-in-invading-ukraine/964547 "2022-05-17T12:56:45Z")
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### Author:  [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-the-us-fare-in-invading-ukraine/964547/21 "2022-05-17T23:46:31Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> If Zelensky stayed in the cities then it would be pretty impossible to go in there and try to get him, without forcing our guys to drive miles and miles through a hail of bullets and Molotov cocktails. But Zelensky would just move around - making it nearly impossible to nab him - and we would slowly lose a bunch of guys and equipment and pundits back home would start trumpeting the numbers like the world was ending, and political will would die.
The NSA would probably be able to pinpoint his position. After that, it’s “Send in the Special Forces.”
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-the-us-fare-in-invading-ukraine/964547/22 "2022-05-18T00:33:11Z")
> [@dtilque](#):
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> Maybe instead of invading Ukraine, we think about invading Brobdingnag, which was a big peninsula off the west coast of North America (at the time it was written, that was an unexplored part of the world).
They’d stomp us flat.
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