Well people in the US especially have this grand distorted view of what Russia is like. Russia is basically a third world country.
If you get 50 miles outside Moscow its horses and ox carts. Half the roads are impassable in the rainy season. They have no infrastructure and a modest economy. Russia has not built a new product since 1975. Their main exports are wheat, oil and gas and some weapons. In 2012 the wheat crop failed so they didn’t export any.
Rusia cannot compete at all with our military or our economy. Most of their nukes are so antiquated the UN inspectors won’t climb in the silos. They had to enlist our people to dismantle a lot of their stuff because they were afraid of it.
There is a reason why Russia is not at war with anybody. They can’t afford it. This incursion into the Ukraine will strain their purse strings. The worst thing that will happen is that Crimea will go back to being a separate country from Ukraine like it was before WWI when they were originally cobbled together. I doubt that will even happen. In a couple of mos this will all get ironed out and we won’t even be talking about it anymore.
So don’t be worried about Putin pulling a Hitler. HItler he ain’t.
Insightful post in some ways but not in others. I’m sure your characterization of the country is spot on as far as the roads and the oxcarts go.
But on the other hand, the Germans thought and said exactly the same thing about the Russians in 1941 and for that matter Napoleon might have done the same way back when. In each case, Russia had the last laugh.