«We are not planning to go to war against Europe. I have said that a hundred times. But if Europe wants to wage a war against us and suddenly starts a war with us, we are ready. There should be no doubt about that. The only question is if Europe suddenly starts a war against us, I think very quickly… Europe is not Ukraine. In Ukraine, we are acting with surgical precision. You see my point, don’t you? It is not a war in the direct, modern sense of the word. If Europe suddenly decides to go to war against us and actually follows through with it, then a situation may arise very quickly where we will be left with no one to negotiate with.»
Vladimir Putin at a press conference yesterday in Moscow
In theory, the Russian Empire, a great power with the second-largest army in the world, that failed to successfully invade a country with less than a third of its population and less than a fifth of its armed forces, an Empire with an economy smaller than Italy's, would have no chance of defeating the EU. In practice, a dictatorship, where there is no such thing as freedom of expression or public opinion, ruled by a despot with a price on his head, represents an existential threat to a collection of states managed by Eurocrats who are only risking their jobs.
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