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Russia would become larger. Putin seems to think that Russia should be larger than it is today. The Soviet Union was larger than Russia is today.
by jbergens 9y ago
Russia would become larger. Putin seems to think that Russia should be larger than it is today. The Soviet Union was larger than Russia is today.
- strictnein 9y agoThe last time they tried that it didn't go very well. In fact, it went really, really poorly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War Finland: 25,904 dead or missing 43,557 wounded Russia: 126,875–167,976 dead or missing 188,671 wounded
- angry_octet 9y agoAnd now we have far superior high-tech guerilla trinkets. Iranian-supplied engineered IEDs destroyed coalition mobility in Iraq, but even homebrew IEDs sufficed in Afghan. The low-metal non-jammable IEDs the Finns would come up with? And just to mention a few other levelers: imaging MANPADs, sabotage drones, jamming (er, Nokia): the Russians wouldn't be able to fly, drive, talk, or get supplies. And did I mention that Finns can hack?