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Well. 4th Gen fighter in a nice bodykit
Everyone in this thread is focused on Finland, but the order also increases the military to 1.5M active duty. They currently have 1M, so this is increasing their active duty by 50%. There's little reason to think Russia can afford to do this or that the troops will be adequately trained/supplied. I think this is much less likely than a few bases on the Finish border.
Russia currently has a population of ~147M. That means they plan on having 1 out of every hundred citizens being active military. If they're mostly men, that's one out of 50. Subtract the men under 16 and over 60, and you're probably talking one out of every 25. >

Having a huge standing army worked great for the North Korean economy, right? >

And Iraq! >

Which the US beat twice in a very short amount of time, thousands of miles from US. Russia struggles to supply troops along its border. Russia just had to copy the US playbook of gaining air superiority before ground troops and despite owning 5th generation fighters they can’t even do that. >


5th generation fighters

Well yeah, it’s a little harder when you only have like 5 of them