Better than having to cry in russian in 20 years.

Also, according to Perun, if Europe collectively raises defense spending to somewhere near 4,5% (I think, check last Sundays episode) it will outspend not only US but US and China together.

Might as well adopt Songun.

Heh, North Korea is involved!

*eg. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/09/europe/russia-advances-ku...

FWIW, all European countries combined spend 5x more on military expenditure, than Russia. And that's using old numbers, before Trump became POTUS.

Yet Russia has more brigades, more artillery and artillery shells, more nukes. The comment above is right. Europe needs to wake the hell up and increase military production 10X, even if temporarily.

If Russians take Ukraine, they will force their population to attack the next country. Just like it happened with men of Donbass.

lol Russia are barely making progress in Ukraine, and have effectively been in a stalemate since the 2022 invasion - while currently shipping back their wounded vets to the frontline on donkeys. Hadn't it been for Trump, Russia would effectively go bankrupt before being able to cross the Dnipro river.

The only real capability Russia has, are their nuclear weapons and other long-range weapons - and even with the latter, they have been struggling.

FWIW, I worked in the defense industry, and even before the invasion Russia has been viewed as a paper tiger. They're good at coming up with novel ideas and weaponry, but for whatever reason, struggle to successfully get things from the drawing board to operational weapons.

s/are/were barely making progress. The ~20% [1] reduction [2] in total supplies to the ukraine front line lead to the logical predication that frontline dynamics would be impacted. Early indicators suggest this prediction is materializing. [3].

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukraine-europe-react-sh... Pre freeze: "Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute think tank in the U.K., told ABC News that recent estimates indicate the U.S. share of all military hardware sent to the front has fallen to around 20%, with 25% coming from Europe and 55% domestically produced in Ukraine." ; also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain...

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/04/us-weapo...

[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/09/europe/russia-advances-ku...

A front collapse can happen rapidly, as we saw with the russian front line in 2022. Russia, unfortunately, has massive military advantages over Ukraine. Ukraine is basically holding on because the people are fighting for their country, while russians are fighting either for money or to kill/invade.

Russians are slowly creeping in. I've heard ru-bankruptcy narrative for 3 years now, and it's not happening. They can buy lots of stuff with all the oil/gas/metals/minerals/lumber sales.