Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
His end game is to recreate the Warsaw pac
Verbally maybe. Nostalgia. Practically: No way.
He will even not be able to swallow and keep the whole Ukraine permanently. Maybe Donbass/Luhansk. Maybe whole (South-) Eastern Ukraine. Those parts where his supporters are strong/majority. The rest?: Nope.
I'm amazed how everyone out of pure scare inflates Vlad' and his Army so disproportionally. Again: Russian Armed Forces is conventionally about 10-15% of the size of the Warsaw Pac Amred Forces back in the day.
Nuclear is a whole different story. There, Russia and the US are still able to wipe out Mankind. And I'm happy to read that they are seemingly aware of this and seem not to want to pull this joker over Ukraine