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(58,654 posts)PortTack
(32,767 posts)Bad
lapfog_1
(29,201 posts)population of NATO countries - 944 M
population of Russia - 144 M
GDP of NATO countries - 18.35 Trillion
GDP of Russia - 1.48 Trillion
( GDP of California is around 3 Trillion )
If NATO engages and this becomes a resource war ( non-nuclear )... Putin will have gravely miscalculated.
AND now we know why Trump was trying to kill off NATO or at least get us out of NATO... he really is / was owned by Putin
marie999
(3,334 posts)If there is a war in Europe, it opens up the Pacific to China, the third-best military.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)Lovie777
(12,260 posts)Is there a clock or something in human's psychic to automatically kill.
lapfog_1
(29,201 posts)Russia has a faltering economy, brought about by 2 years of low oil prices... coupled with a severe pandemic response (Sputnik was, apparently, not that effective). This is leading Putin to restart the "Ukraine issue"... not to mention the failure to install a pro-Russian government in Ukraine.