"Once that's true. I am pretty sure they don't even have to go to war with Ukraine."If Russia has half as much money as the US to put in their military, it would mean that their economy is at least 5 to 8 times that of today. Once that's true. I am pretty sure they don't even have to go to war with Ukraine. They would have enough economic cake to make Russia-Ukraine strategic relation profitable enough for Ukraine that Ukraine won't stay so poor. Once both Ukraine and Russia are both rich and have very good growth, the Ukrainians won't be so desperate to join EU, and Russians won't really be as intimated by the EU as they have been.
We always forget that the vision of NATO on little loss and the vision of Russia on little loss are probably different. Losing tens of thousand is probably a little loss for Russia. Old T-72 and APC loss is irrelevant too, they were on the road of replacement anyway and they have fields of them from Soviet times. Cannot quantify something easily when we don't measure things the same way.Very little loss of Russian lives and equipment.
WW2 USSR had mass conscription with millions of untrained soldiers. The Russian army today in Ukraine is a professional (i.e. volunteer) army. Russian soldiers were kept in camps for some time, they weren't inducted into a "Free Russia" army days/weeks after being captured. And Putin isn't exactly Stalin.Hundreds of thousands of Russians were willing to fight on the side of Hitler against the USSR.
Why do you apparently act as though it's unbelievable that hundreds of Russians may be willing to fight for Ukraine?
I was just being sarcastic. lol"Of course, I am Asiatic Chinese mongoloid barbarian, my words aren't worth a hundredth of that of a noble, civilized Aryan superhuman."
--Jingle Bells
Your abysmal ignorance and racial prejudice are coming out.
Would you look down on Ruth Felicitas Weiss, aka Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗 ?
She was born in Vienna in 1908 and moved to Shanghai in 1933, where she worked as a journalist and a teacher.
She married a Chinese engineer, with whom she had two children. After the Second World War, the family moved to
the USA in order for her husband to study at MIT. In 1949, the couple separated and got divorced because he
(who was born and bred in China) wanted to make his career in the USA whereas she (who grew up in Austria) wanted
to help build a new China. So he (looking Chinese!) stayed in the USA, and she returned with her two children to China.
She became a Chinese citizen. She died in Beijing in 2006.
So would you judge Ruth Weiss by how she looked or where she was born rather than by what she did for China?
Again, spoken like the nouveau riche.I didn't say money can solve all problems.
But will you honestly think that if the Russians has 10 times their current economy and is able to put 10 times more money into their military as they have now for the last 20 decades, they will perform as badly as they are right now?
If Russia has half as much money as the US to put in their military, it would mean that their economy is at least 5 to 8 times that of today. Once that's true. I am pretty sure they don't even have to go to war with Ukraine. They would have enough economic cake to make Russia-Ukraine strategic relation profitable enough for Ukraine that Ukraine won't stay so poor. Once both Ukraine and Russia are both rich and have very good growth, the Ukrainians won't be so desperate to join EU, and Russians won't really be as intimated by the EU as they have been.
Poverty is the greatest evil of all. You only put names on top of poverty like:
- evil,
- expansionist,
- barbaric,
- imperial desires,
- aggression,
- inhumane,
- immoral,
- backward,
- chauvinist,
- communist-fascist-nazi,
- beastly orcs
- misogynistic,
- "Scratch at the Russian and underneath you will see the Tatar"
etc.
Of course, I am an Asiatic Chinese mongoloid barbarian, my words aren't worth a hundredth of that of a noble, civilized Aryan superhuman, not worth a thousandth if said Aryan superhuman is blond-haired-blue-eyed.
Russia is hardly poor though. Just their income from oil and gas alone is Saudi Arabia level. Obviously they have more population, but the military spending is about the same.If Russia has half as much money as the US to put in their military, it would mean that their economy is at least 5 to 8 times that of today. Once that's true. I am pretty sure they don't even have to go to war with Ukraine. They would have enough economic cake to make Russia-Ukraine strategic relation profitable enough for Ukraine that Ukraine won't stay so poor. Once both Ukraine and Russia are both rich and have very good growth, the Ukrainians won't be so desperate to join EU, and Russians won't really be as intimated by the EU as they have been.
Poverty is the greatest evil of all. You only put names on top of poverty like:
- evil,
- expansionist,
- barbaric,
- imperial desires,
- aggression,
- inhumane,
- immoral,
- backward,
- chauvinist,
- communist-fascist-nazi,
- beastly orcs
- misogynistic,
- "Scratch at the Russian and underneath you will see the Tatar"
etc.
Of course, I am an Asiatic Chinese mongoloid barbarian, my words aren't worth a hundredth of that of a noble, civilized Aryan superhuman, not worth a thousandth if said Aryan superhuman is blond-haired-blue-eyed.
You forgetting the cause of it all. The final piece is China, Russia and their enormous natural resources is the cherry on top of the cake, this war was going to happen whatever position Ukraine took. Is the fight of USA to keep as the only hegemonic power.Not at all, I was saying that if Russia had the money all alone, they won't even be in this situation now. I was talking about a possible reality at least 10 years ago.
My point was to show the significance of money. Money is always always very important. If Russia's economy is at least 5 time that of now, meaning if Russia's per capita economy was on par with EU, Russians would NEVER have any kind of fear or concern about the EU any ways. EU and Russia will both be pretty willing to let Russia and other former USSR states to join the EU, and only party opposing would be the USA. Countries like Ukraine and Belarus will also be pretty rich, simply by having good relations with Russia.
The biggest cause of Euro-Maidan is not Ukrainians just somehow hating on Russians with unreasonable prejudice. It is mainly because they DON'T see a rich and bright future with Russia. Russia herself was poor and lacking in development and economic competitiveness back in the 2010 to 2014, why should Ukrainians forfeit a chance to integrate with EU for a better future?
at the 2010-2014 time frame, Russia was benefiting and earning income from the EU, and at the same time, opposing Ukrainian getting closer to EU. That was a pretty asshole move. This is a Ukrainian perspective that I can't really argue against. The Russians are saying "West bad, NATO bad, EU bad" to Ukraine, all the while they are pumping billions worth of natural gas to their supposed "biggest enemy". And what can Ukraine gain from this? Nothing! Because if they could, they would have had enough growth to at least catch up to Russia per capita GDP level.
Poverty is the evil, everything else are the symptoms of this evil.Again, spoken like the
No, it’s not. Poverty is not an evil, it is a symptom of many possibly evils. It is entirely possible to make someone appear to have gotten richer for a while without addressing the underlying evil that made them poor once and will make them poor again.
You have it backwards. The fact that starting from the same place, some can get rich while others remain poor shows poverty is not the cause but the effect. The fact that the effect can Itself also cause many further bad things does not make the effect the root cause.Poverty is the evil, everything else are the symptoms of this evil.
By the way, I was not talking about "someone", I was talking about Russia as a country.