• susieq0044@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    That’s naive. Putin is building an army with 1.5 million soldiers, he’s in panic mode and highly unpredictable. The only thing that will stop Russia is strength.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      The EU, combined with the UK and Turkey have over 2 million soldiers already, more advanced equipment and vastly more capital.

      Also no, Putin isn‘t. He‘s been putting mercenaries of over 40 nations and many Russians into the meat grinder for almost 5 years. Russia has no resources to win any war right now.

      • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Russia has no resources to win any war right now

        They’ve got the resources to wage a war, though. “Win” is a relative term.

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          18 days ago

          Win is a pretty clear term. If you get less out of a war than you‘re putting in, you lost. If Russia has this much trouble against little Ukraine they would get absolutely steamrolled by Europe.

    • Jumi@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      NATO without the US has already a higher budget, more soldiers, more vehicles and planes and more modern equipment than Russia.

      You’re getting fooled by propaganda which has a habit of portraying their enemies as weaker and stronger at the same time.

      Europe is starving its social security, education, infrastructure and healthcare to funnel everything into rearmament while the armaments industry has the lowest return of investment with 50 cents per euro invested.

      This is not East vs West, this is class war.