RE: EUA is Finished - Finland is Stage 2 of NATO Vs Russia War11 Sep 2025 15:48
If anyone on these boards think Putin has the conventional means to attack literally any other country in the short to medium term, you need to give your head a wobble.
Their materiale is depleted to the point that any other significant power could just roll them over, if it wasn't for nuclear weapons. So much they had to abandon Syria, Armenia, Africa and their borders must now be very exposed (no wonder he's being especially pally with Xi).
We've no doubt entered another Cold War; psyops, attacks on infrastructure, political influence, assassinations, threats of intel disclosure (crypto, Epstein) but Russia is a busted flush.
Yes, they can draft men to throw at the barbed wire and hundreds of cheap drones into the air, but they are spent...literally.
Their Summer offensive has failed, their forces culminated, air defence all but depleted (Ukraine has resumed air force operations on the front line) oil industry decimated and they are running an unsustainable account deficit.
Putin continues to 'brass it out' but the writing is on the wall.
Nuisance still, yes, but a serious chance of them invading another Western nation, other than as a desperate provocation, is for the birds.
Tick tock