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Russia could start a major war in Europe within 5 years, Danish intelligence warns
(www.politico.eu)
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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With what troops and hardware? This is ridiculous. I mean if Putin has a few working nukes, sure he could launch them. But he doesn't have anything else left. It's all been destroyed.
Russia has started up a war economy, scaling up production of weapons, tanks, etc.
Putin probably waits untill Trump destroys NATO and is just taking his time to prepare.
The only reason Ukraine has been holding on for this long is because all the stuff they got from the US and EU. If that stops it's not going to last long.
Pete Hegseth already completely fucked Ukraine by saying they need to give up on joining NATO and just accept that Russia can keep all the occupied areas. It's like the Trump administration just wants to kiss Putin's ass.
the weaker NATO gets, the more likely we see nuclear war.
if the USA was to say, abandon the alliance, or not honor Article 5. the British and French may just immediatley Nuke Russia if they move into eastern europe.
Russia can't produce tanks. They can only refit soviet era stocks and build a few ifvs. There are almost no soviet era stocks left. They are using ~~late ww2 era tractors ~~ ~~civillian cars~~ ~~chinese golf carts~~ ~~dirt bikes~~ ~~e scooters~~ mules for gods sake. They are producing vast amounts of drones though and are one of two countries in the world experienced in drone warfare.
Putin has already completed his demographic suicide. There are no men left to fight, or have children. They can build as many tanks and guns as they want, but there won't be anyone to operate them.
Yeah this is wishful thinking. This is the kind of thinking that has involved people failing in Russia for the last few hundred years. You don't Outlast Russia in a game of numbers. That don't work. Russia will happily go Toe to Toe with you and lose four times as many men. Not a problem for them. Never has been never will be.
He still has half the voters in the US sucking his dick.
Republicans could be made to contort their minds to accept anything, even that Russia is our new ally and we're sending them aid to fight communism or something.
They'll cheer
I want to believe putin would find it difficult to maintain a war time economy without a war going on.
agree. but there's still plenty of capability of "erasing the decadent homosexual west"
going out with a blaze of glory is all russia has left. They spent themselves in Ukraine, and any move further into Europe, with NATO panicking over America being basically regulatory captured by Russia and Fascist sycophants, will likely result in an immediate nuclear response.