Originally Posted by
Martin the Martian
A lot depends surely on how committed the 55% who are conscripts are?
Which in turn depends on how committed the Kommissars are behind them...
For all their investment in new mil tech, its still enormous massive country to defend (how many Su-57s per 1000 kilometre of border - one?)
I do get the sense the Russian public is growing increasingly weary of all this expenditure when they're seeing their living standards declining year-on-year (which could explain Vlad's reluctance to step up in places such as Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh).