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18. Russia already has its hands full with Ukraine.

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:13 PM

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I hope and pray it never comes to it but the European Union has a population of 450 million and a GDP of 28 trillion, Russia has a population of 145 million and a GDP of 2 trillion. Russia has never faced the full force of modern western weapons.
If it was limited to conventional warfare I don't think it would be much of a fight. Russian soldiers are currently too busy running around the Ukrainian countryside trying to avoid FPV drones, and Putin is already having to conscript 50 and 60 year olds, and borrowing cannon fodder from N. Korea. Ukraine produces between 4 and 5 million FPV's per year and they rarely miss their target.

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