Originally Posted by
MaxQ
Christmas 1991 was when the Russian Republic, along with Ukraine and Belarus separated from the USSR. Russia, Ukraine and Belarus met in Belarus and declared that the USSR no longer existed. The rest of the 15
Barring a change in Russian objectives, a major war would be an absolute certainty. The only questions would be in what manner it would play out, and would nuclear war be averted.
Seriously? Russia started this with all its stored gear from the Cold War, a population of 147 million people, and a gdp of $1.48 Trillion. They have since expended the vast majority of their Cold War hardware and been under sanctions for the last four years and - not incidentally - taken in excess of a million casualties. Demographically, they are in better shape than Ukraine, but that is damning them with faint praise.
Russia’s population has been declining since 1990 and, because the fertility rate is less than 2.1, will continue to decline.
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Meanwhile the population of the EU alone is 450 million with a GDP of $21 Trillion add in the UK (69 million people, $4.6 Trillion GDP, and you have over a half billion people and $25 Trillion. And you think Russia is going to somehow conquer Western Europe? Get serious. Russia hasn’t been able to conquer more than 20% of Ukraine in four years and Ukraines population at the start of this was only 42 million with a GDP of around $200 billion. And you seriously expect them to be able to threaten the EU and United Kingdom who have a combined population TWELVE TIMES THAT SIZE and a combined GDP 14-15 times that of Russia?
You, my friend, are delusional.