There used to be way more Ashkenazi Jews up until the 40s or so. I wonder what happened.

They already switched into war time production, and if they manage to get Ukraine they only need a year or two to replenish all military equipment.

And who’s going to do all the replenishing? Disabled former soldiers, the single moms the dead ones left behind, or the almost nonexistent men over 55? Oh, maybe they could liberate the prison population, half of which has AIDS.

Edit: not to mention their enormous deficit in power projection, assuming they could replenish their equipment and find people to operate it. They barely have a navy, have essentially lost access to the Baltic, and other than Belarus have no allies who would let them use their territory for staging.

Yeah, but I wanted to make a joke at the RuAF’s expense.

Does Russia even have 1000 operational aircraft at this point?

This looks way too small to be HIMARS. A guided shell maybe?

There’s also Russian style propaganda which isn’t really about sending any specific message but more about sowing chaos. It’s about blasting people with so much contradictory information that they become overwhelmed and exhausted and just give up trying to pay attention to anything.

“Flood the zone with shit”

— Steve Bannon

Kazakhstan has explicitly refused to help Russia in Ukraine and is slowly forging closer ties with the west.

Edit to add a source: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/shocked-by-ukraine-war-russian-neighbour-kazakhstan-looks-west-2022-11-17/

A poll of random Saudi citizens is irrelevant — they have no say in their government.

I suppose, but attacking NATO would be a whole other level of crazy. The biggest winner there would be Ukraine.

OK, that’s the “one” I was thinking of. I was confused as to what the other might be, since Finland and the USSR were born at the same time.

Only once that I know of, and that was arguably a stalemate even though the USSR took part of Karelia. The Finns also learned their lesson there, and today (enormous network of bunkers, largest artillery force in Europe, F-35s on order, military reserve is 20% of the population) they are ready.

Plus, of course, they are EU members (which has a mutual defense clause) and NATO (whose Article 5 is well-known)

Russia will absolutely not invade Finland, even if it weren’t part of NATO and the EU.

They can make a big show of parking the T14s and Su-57s there knowing they won’t have to be put to use and no one will find out how shit they are.

The best defense against war is the ever-present threat of overwhelming retaliation.

Please help this nonamerican understand why her skin colour is relevant?