I’d really like to see some back of the napkin math that shows that on some planet it’s a logical move for Putin to wake up one day and say, “I think I’ll role the dice on taking over and attempting to occupy the fast declining economic entity that is now Europe.”

I mean, American is the military and economic powerhouse of the world, and yet it cost them trillions to invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, in which they ultimately lost the latter and effectively handed the former over to become a proxy of Iran.

But supposedly a country with a GDP smaller than that of Italy is going to have better luck taking on the entire west to indefinitely occupy all (or most?) of Europe because, u know… daddy needs a new empire!