Quote Originally Posted by Just Vuk Again View Post
You are only factoring in conventional forces, AND you are ignoring the fact that Europeans would rather surrender than fight a sustained war. Why do people always like to underestimate Russia?
because, militarily, it is a wreck.

never again will russia have the ability to pose an existential (conventional) threat to europe, and there would be no point nuking it either because it has not the resources to consolidate its victory, presupposing it survived a second strike itself.

russia can bully its little neighbours, but that is it.