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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
A war for what? For a broke Ukraine? Never happen.
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Funny how your tone has changed, now that Russia had to turn tail. Wasn't but just a few weeks ago, you were bragging how Russia would take all of Ukraine.
How was it, I told you then that this would all end? I said Russia would eventually back down because it has far too much to lose economically. Russia isn't capable of being a world contender on economic market that is what the world is today.
Russia is essentially just a big oil/gas company but has very little market share of any other industry. Russia is worth about 200 billion a year for it's oil,and gas. While that sounds like a lot, the US for example with those same two industries is good for 1.2 trillion.
Russia doesn't have a lot of heavy hitting industry either, so they don't have a lot of options so Russia simply can not compete if the West turns on it. Putin knows this, so he talks tough and tries to use pressure on the local region, but at the end of the day, we see how things worked out. Ukraine lost some land, but they sign on with the EU.
Now Russia has another unfriendly country next door.. Russia is just a regional power that happens to have some big boy toys.