And they’d be no match for a combined joint operation of all NATO nations.”
Do you actually imagine a non-nuclear shooting war between NATO and Russia? How do you see this unfolding and ending?
It won’t start unless Putin attacks a NATO nation, which is why he fear NATO. He doesn’t fear the relatively weak NATO countries, especially the new weak ones, because they will or migh attack Russia. He fears NATO because now he cannot attack a lot of neighboring countries that are relatively weak to Russia. Before he could bully the Baltic nations. And that would have made his fan club cheer, some on this site. After all, he’s a tough guy, and might makes right to them and morals and mass murder do not matter. But he can’t attack all of NATO without being destroyed. He’s a former damned communist expediently turned ultra nationalist using demagogic arguments to keep himself in power and beyond prosecution for his many terrible crimes. We’re talking about con man, not a mad man. If he were a true mad man nationalist, he’d have taken Europe when Obama removed all of the US Army’s armor.