re: #402 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Their military isn’t anywhere near the level of ours, but it doesn’t have to be. We’re not going to even possibly fight an all-out war. And if we did, they’ve got nukes.

Russia has severe problems with its economy and its military. What makes this scarier to me is that it seems desperate because Russia gains very little from a takeover of the Crimea, and opens itself up to horrible vulnerabilities if it takes all of the Ukraine. I think that the internal state in Russia has become so nationalistic that they can’t survive politically without this rigid “Where there are ethnic Russians there we are” attitude, which is not sustainable.

One Freeper did point out that Putin’s language here has all the flavor of Hitler’s about Germany invading its neighbors to protect “ethnic Germans.”