People always talk about a potential WW3 everytime there is even the slightest confrontation between powerful countries but it never happens. At this point I'm convinced there will never be a WW3.
People always talk about a potential WW3 everytime there is even the slightest confrontation between powerful countries but it never happens. At this point I'm convinced there will never be a WW3.
Even Russia is a shadow of its former self. Under the USSR the Soviets often matched or outpaced American industrial output for specific industries on a yearly basis.
Russia minus the other Soviet Republics now has the industrial capacity of Italy, and is pretty much a petrostate that sells oil and imports tech/industrial. Unless someone starts supplying Russia with mechanical/electronic replacement parts it is limited to border skirmishes of its own frontier.
Only the US kept its defense production at WWII levels for 80+ years. Most other countries it would have been political suicide to spend so much on the military while neglecting domestic needs for so long.
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Russia might take a few miles of the borderlands it shares with Ukraine; however, anything more would take years, maybe decades. Ukraine's population is 1/3rd the size of Russia and there is rail, air, and roads to bring in material from NATO/EU sympathizers.
Taiwan is ~20 million people with no land borders and only five major sea ports, it is only independent because China doesn't want to deal with the economic or political fallout.
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