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> Some economic perspective. The Russian economy is 10x the size of the Ukrainian.

This is the fact that matters.

> The US economy is 14x larger than Russia's. The Canadian economy is larger than Russia's. The combined economy of all of NATO is 25x the size of Russia's. This does not even include Pacific allies like Japan and ANZUS.

That doesn't matter. Many countries may have larger economies than Russia, but none of them have been willing to translate that into anything that can counter Russia's actions.

IIRC, the US gives far more military aid to Israel than it has to Ukraine, and it's too late to change that. Germany sent Ukraine 5,000 hats for its defense.



> but none of them have been willing to translate that into anything that can counter Russia's actions.

It gives perspective to how Russia knows not to mess with anyone with a larger military or economic presence. These countries aren't getting involved because doing so means they have a lot more economic prosperity to lose compared to Russia.


tablespoon says >Germany sent Ukraine 5,000 hats for its defense.<

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the helmet offer had left him “speechless”: “What will Germany send next? Pillows?”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/27/a-joke-germany-mock...

There's a good joke in there somewhere: I'll settle for "Hats off to Ukraine's new [if short-lived] fearless leader, Vladimir Putin!"

"THE BEST 68 PUTIN JOKES":

https://jokojokes.com/putin-jokes.html




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