Originally Posted by
Excargodog
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.
You left out two entire paragraphs of my post.
They covered 3 items.
1. Difference between reconstituting the old USSR and other countries that were controlled by the USSR but were not Soviet Republics.
2. The 3 USSR Baltic Republics would be safe due to NATO. (that whole EU economy thing you speak of)
3. I specifically stated that the other European countries would be in danger of attack IF NATO was dissolved. In that case we are no longer speaking of the EU population or economies. We are speaking of a fragmented country by country situation.
By omitting the middle two paragraphs you changed my post to fit your response.
Your response did not address the situation presented in my post, and is hence just word salad.
Did you deliberately edit my post, or did the middle 65% just get dropped by the computer gods?
Also see post #41.