Cairenn
Senior Member.
What you are ignoring is that any action taken would need to take place over thousands of square miles at the least. Russia might have the territory to do it, but Russia is not that wealthy. They really have a military industrial complex. They are extremely dependent on the sales of natural resources, oil and gas that they send to Europe (there is some evidence that they are behind some of the anti fracking campaigns), gold and the price on it has dropped. They have a lot of diamonds, but that market is easy to flood and to collapse the prices. Twenty per cent of folks in Russia work in the defense industry.
Russia is not that wealthy.
Russia is not that wealthy.