I don't understand the question. The Soviets managed to overwhelm the Germans in the end but it was at a tremendous cost of human lives. But even before that, the fact that Germany took over large swaths of Russia by storm was due to Stalin wiping out all the experienced generals a few years prior and the army having extremely unskilled leadership.
Unless you're the Mongolian army.
Away from the cameras, Truss allegedly confused the Russian regions of Voronezh and Rostov with Ukrainian territory when Lavrov asked her whether she recognised Russia's sovereignty over them. She repeatedly told Lavrov that the UK would never recognise Moscow's claim, until the British ambassador was forced to step in to correct her, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported.
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Not that they'd ever want to invade Russia, but if they did no, they wouldn't be in Moscow in a week, as they'd do the logical thing and start of with weeks / months of bombardment to suppress any russian AA capability, and prepare supply lines. You know, in order not to have the problems Russia has right now.
Everyone who feels sorry for russian soldiers should read it. Maybe it opens some people eyes.
Why not if you could prevent genocides and ethnic cleansing that are about to happen?
Finland bought 64 F35s for like 9bn €. If those numbers are true they're probably buying somewhere to 80-100 F35s
I was pointing out a future with Russia inside the EU, where Russia's 60.000 km long border including its 20.000 kilometer long land border - both the longest borders in the world - would be the outside border of the EU. Compared to the current EUs total land border of 14.000 KM, which includes borders with countries like Norway, Swiss and the Balkans that are either in the EEA or on its way to the EU. There are very very practical issues with a unified Russia becoming an EU member outside of any political ones.
This is under the assumption russia would want to be invaded. I doubt that.
It was probably meant to be a covert operation, but some EU politician leaked it early so now they are having to backtrack and deny that it's happening. It will most likely still happen but with plausible deniability. At least that's how I see it.
Yep. NATO is so much more powerful than Russia it's shocking. Without nukes, we would overrun them.
The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron (technically the Russian navy not the army but still)
Nah. They hold alliances with too many other nuclear powers. China would tell NATO to fuck off.
But is different this time! (Said everyone since Charles XII).
No. Look at the numbers though. We simply would be stronger. I didn't say more than that. I think without nukes we should definitely help, because citizens are targeted by the russian army.
Well in this case its the EU, since it started with EU diplomats going back and forth! I agree with other posters, this may not be a clear-cut case of what is actually going on though for a variety of reasons.
China isn't backing Russia XD. The west is financially their biggest partner. China helping Russia in a war is financial suicide. Besides the question and discussion was about a war without nukes. So I dunno why your argument is other got nukes.
That's a declaration of war. Please no. Do not deny a country access to their sovereign land even if their war criminals.
No one in power is (rightfully) saying it, but regime change is on the western power's minds right now. Putin is causing massive external instability, and I don't see how the rest of the world "normalizes" with Russia at this point as long as Putin is in charge. That river has been crossed. Most of these sanctions are aimed at depleting Putin's strength, and once you take away a strongman's strength, they can't maintain power for long.
More posturing. All it means as of now is that Russia isn't going to negotiate or stop their aggression, so they put out a nonsensical and meaningless demand that they know doesn't actually matter to stonewall the talks.
