Today they are smaller and weaker, as post 3 shows, much of that Russia is now NATO.
You must be very young to call it my "grandfather's Red Army" and you have things basackwards as far as when they were a threat, and your strategy to allow them to start conquering and enslaving, and becoming that threat again, is also basackwards.
This is the Russia that many here were facing under Reagan.
But we do not have the will to fight—If the balloon goes up we sould be running to the UN to stop the bloodshed and end the war. One Nuke—hit one US city and it would be over—we lose. Pajama Boys, race husslers, they don’t want to fight—same with Liberals and Progressives. Its about the will—and we don’t have it.
Raw numbers mean nothing.
More important is the belief in the justice of one’s cause and the willingness to die for one’s country.
The Germans had the initial advantage of surprise and technological superiority in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa but they stalled.
The Soviets had enormous manpower, put together a high quality fighting force and showed enormous courage under a seemingly hopeless situation.
They turned the tide at Stalingrad - we marked the 72nd anniversary of the outcome of that battle yesterday - a pivotal moment in world history in which in the European theater the intiative passed over onto the Soviet side.