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View submission: Starmer announces European four-point plan to reach peace and defend Ukraine
Europe can fight on multiple fronts, if it has to.
People forget that EU has a population 3x the size of Russia, and if you add the UK that’s half a billion people. Its GDP is about 10x the size of Russia’s.
Europeans are not a military power because they never planned to be since NATO was here. But if NATO goes to shit and Europeans have to fight a credible threat they have the means and the manpower to arm themselves pretty quick.
It’s great for Putin to see disunity in the West and to have the US removed from the stage.
But then he’ll have to deal with the same problem as everyone else - a multi-polar world is a very unstable world.
And in that world Russia (whose economy is the size of Italy’s and which only depends on energy exports as its sole business) will have to compete with much bigger powers, from India and China to Turkey and Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Putin maybe can contain some of them, but he can’t contain all of them. And the more time he spends isolated from the West the more likely it is that Russia itself is going to become a vassal of China.
The world cannot return to the bipolar setup of the Cold War, no matter how much Putin or Trump would want to see that happen.
And I’m not sure an exhausted, broke, demographically devastated Russia, which currently depends on weaponry brought in from North Korea and drones from Iran, can hope to play a major role in this world today.
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