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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If the American's stepped away from NATO I would much rather be the Russian Commander then the NATO Commander on the ground.
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This reminds me of the first Gulf War when there was hysteria over Iraq's "world's fourth biggest army" and "hordes of tanks" and "modern anti-air defences in depth and quantity". Then the actual battles ended up being laughable walkovers.
Russian "technology" is uneven and mostly second-rate, their economy is only around the same size as Canada's, and they have but140 million people - which sounds like a lot, but that's only the population of Germany and France combined. They can project power locally into minnow nations like Estonia or Georgia, or overawe clownshows like Ukraine, but they are no threat to the main parts of Europe. You need to get out of the Cold War and stop worrying about the Russians, they lost that war and Putin's posturing and chest-thumping won't make them a superpower again.