• @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    262 years ago

    They’ve already been moving troops and equipment away from the Finnish borded demonstrating that despite their narrative they’re not actually worried about NATO invasion. If the Wagner mutiny revealed anything it’s that if Finland ever wanted to take back Karelia now would be the time and to be honest we could snatch St. Petersburg while we’re at it and basically receive zero resistance. We wont though and they know it.

    • @Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      I would wager they’d resort to nuclear response if that happened. The last thing putin could ever accept is losing existing russian land.

  • bluGill
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    182 years ago

    Dictators like Putin dare not let their military become powerful. There is too much risk that the military will rise up and depose the dictator. In most NATO countries the military and people believe in the country and rule of law and so they won’t do that. However a dictator doesn’t have that option.

    Russia will make a show of building up, but they will be careful about it. Weapons systems that look good in the demo will be ordered in small numbers, but not enough to make a difference in any war as they would be used against them. Even when they do have good systems, leaders are promoted based on loyalty to the dictator, not how good they are.

    • @slaacaa@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      It’s also not just about intention, but about possibility. Russia lacks well-trained soldiers and modern equipment as demonstrated in the war. They can’t magically solve either of those problems.

      • bluGill
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        22 years ago

        No magic needed. Russia has some modern gear that they make themselves. They have some well trained soldiers. They know how to design modern gear. They know how to build more gear. They know how to train good soldiers.

        What they can’t do is fix their problems overnight. In just ten years they could fix the problems. Putin is old and statistically unlikely to live ten more years. Their system of government is vulnerable to the military running a coup and taking over so it is unlikely they will fix their problems, but they could.

  • @Mandy@beehaw.org
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    142 years ago

    Build up forces from what? Babies? 90 year old elders?

    Cause eveybody else is getting killed in Ukraine

  • @carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    112 years ago

    I kinda feel like if the whole rest of the world other than some shitty dictators is against you, maybe you’re in the wrong?

  • theodewere
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    72 years ago

    pfft sure they will… they are barely holding onto power… they don’t even know if the Rosgvarda will protect them at this point…

  • teft
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    72 years ago

    Welp. Everybody strap in. This could get bumpy.

    • interolivary
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      112 years ago

      It won’t, it’s just bluster. With 90% probability they won’t do jack shit to a NATO country because they know that’d be the end of us all. That 10% is the Russian sociopath factor; I could absolutely believe they’d prefer killing a huge chunk of humanity and themselves rather than look weak

    • @someguy3@lemmy.ca
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      82 years ago

      It really won’t. They need to bluster but all they can do is station un/poorly trained conscripts and talk big about it.

    • @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
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      42 years ago

      They couldn’t even handle Ukraine. How is this going to get bumpy? What troops do they even have to build up in the west.

      Remember a few years ago when Russian mercs decided to attack an American special forces team in Syria and they not only failed to kill a single American they got bombed into oblivion?

      Same thing will happen if these troops so much as step into NATO territory

      • @Olifant@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        From what I heard it was a bit more nuanced than that. The russian government deliberately ordered the army’s air defences disabled which allowed American air power to have free reign in that battlefield. I’ve no doubt the americans would have beaten them back regardless but with casualties.