Russia does not have conventional military parity with its potential enemies. All of its former captive nations now are free. The Russians hate this, but it's true. So nations like Poland, Hungary, and the rest will not be able or willing to aid Russia.
NATO is weak, but not as weak as Putin thinks. If you look at how strong Japan was relative to the USA prior to Dec 7 1941, Japan was much stronger than Russia is compared to the rest of the world.
Putin's using surrogates, paid trolls, full spectrum information and disinformation, and goofball threats. We need to stay strong and realize that even Putin is not suicidal for a neo-Russian empire enough that he'll start WWIII. He can return to the family of nations very easily. And if Russia really wants him as their president for life and to rename the country Putinstan, they can. Just end his unprovoked and undeclared war on his neighbors and he'll have all of Russia for himself and his rich cronies.
“NATO is weak, but not as weak as Putin thinks. If you look at how strong Japan was relative to the USA prior to Dec 7 1941, Japan was much stronger than Russia is compared to the rest of the world.”
My point was that all Russia has to do is stir it up in the middle east and his hands are more or less clean. Then walla, the price of oil goes up. He’s an ally of the Iranians and the Iranians and the Saudis already hate each other.