>people who watched verhoeven's starship troopers as a serious war drama and felt a patriotic desire to join the marines

Anyway a 2nd abrams confirmed destroyed today

I'd say that between Russian jets downed, UA antiaircraft systems blown up and armor on both sides destroyed, the current fighting indicates Ukraine is committing basically its whole force to try to hold the Russian advance right now. Committing vulnerable armor and AA to the front where its clearly exposed to attack. That can take down a few planes or bust a few Russian troop positions but at costs Ukraine obviously cannot afford. We didn't see this during the grinding war of attrition before the Russian breakthrough, and we wouldn't see it if Ukraine was just trying to minimize losses and regroup to a more solid line of defense. Looks more like a scenario where they could break

if you factor in the bloodbath of the ukranian offensive, which was a complete disaster, the sides should be somewhat equal at least

get rekt Germany

Wouldn't this be a given considering they're waging war? Any major superpower that goes to war props their GDP up via military spending.

No worries

The data is completely wrong, nothing new...

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/with-zero-visibility-into-the-russian-economy-the-imf-is-parroting-putins-line

Russians are fucked.

You are posting an article from more than a year ago.

Change absolutely nothing: Article is correct, you can find more recent articles saying the same thing if you want. Data is based on previous year results anyway.

This reminds me China which faked economic or demographic results for decades. Insane shitty regimes Jesus. GL lol

EU is fucked