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Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Because it can't win a short-term war unless it goes nuclear, and then everyone loses.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    And why can't it win a short-term war?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Because it doesn't have the power to take down an industrialized nuclear power like Russia in a short term war. I don't see what you're imagining here.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Last time they tried our grandparents took 105 days to beat Russia with very little formal military and even less hardware. Sure, we had some help back then too, but today it's on a whole different level. And we're just a single small country up north, NATO as a whole is quite a bit bigger.

    Russia currently has lost million soldiers and stockpiles of soviet relics are pretty much empty with a strong breeze away from total economy collapse. They don't have power to conquer a potato field from a modern western country right now, much less against the whole global west.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    This is entirely divorced from reality. Modern western countries have hollowed out their industry, and can't fight a true war against a peer country that's actually industrialized. Russia's economy is doing well, and they have strong trade through BRICS.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What makes you think they don't have the power

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because western countries do not have the industrial capacity for a long-term war nor the ability to topple a country as large as Russia in the short term.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You are a master at dodging the question, I'll give you that!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I never dodged anything. No power on the planet has the ability to overtake a country as large as Russia, a nuclear-armed Russia at that, in a short-term war. Invading Russia is notoriously difficult, and the neighboring countries with land bridges do not have the ability to field a large offensive, except China, which is an ally.

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