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Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre... by ridiculous_leke on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:02AM (#29578162)
It's not just about votes. Modern wars can be endless as we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Russia is not foolish enough to do a full scale invasion. They will just send in proxies. No nation wants to commit resources to such wars.
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Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre... by underscore_ku on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:29AM (#29578442)
russia's economy is smaller than Italy's, Russia can't afford long wars. in 10 years Poland alone would be able to take on Russia.
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Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre... by Bayart on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:57AM (#29578752)
Russia's development and production costs for military hardware is also much smaller than any Western nation's. They get much more for their money in that respect.
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Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre... by kingcharles on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:40AM (#29578557)
People never realize how broke Russia really is because Russia plays such a good marketing game.
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Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre... by ghostwriter on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:26AM (#29579934)
Some other people also never realise that "broke on paper" means nothing when you are an energy-independent state with arms and a nuclear capacity to protect its territory.
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