[Gunslingr3]

Russia, with her Italian sized economy and shrinking populace, is conquering the World?
You’re hysterical in the most literal sense of the word.
Their power projection is a handful of old boats a few dozen aircraft.
You’re being sold a hoax, to justify a decades old racket.

[Zhang Fei]

[Russia, with her Italian sized economy and shrinking populace, is conquering the World?]

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Economies don’t conquer the world. Armies do. Alexander. Genghis Khan. Attila. Muhammad. A country with land area almost as big as the next two countries put together, in possession of thousands of nukes, is a major threat. In fact, Russia’s nukes are probably the primary reason we’ve been so laid back with respect to Russia’s attempt to annex Ukraine.

In any case, no one’s saying we should invade Russia. It’s only prudent to joust with Russia the way it jousted with us in Korea and Vietnam, where Russia’s support of our enemies resulted in 100K dead Americans - our entire casualty count from fighting Japan in WWII. They equipped our adversaries, operated SAM’s and flew fighter planes against our flyers.