All article 5 says is that members have to consider what level of support they're going to provide. It does not stipulate that member countries have to be involved militarily.
The funny part here is that 90k is far below 500k+ they were claiming this whole time.
Well, the IMF and the World Bank seem to disagree with you. Maybe you should let them know your new fangled economic theory though.
Unfortunately, people living in the west seem to be incapable of internalizing this simple fact.
Apparently you can't even do basic math. Russian population is 140 million, and the total size of Russian army is 1.5 million, the casualties according to the only western source that provides any methodology is around 88k. If you think that's going to have a significant impact on Russia overall then you're delusional. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng-trl
Meanwhile, absolutely hilarious you think Russian economy is some sort of a Potemkin village that's got all the economists at the IMF and World Bank fooled. You keep on waiting there for Russian collapse, I'm sure it'll happen right after China collapses.
The leader of divided and failing colonizer nations seems more accurate.
As the article above explains, Russia alone is massively outproducing all of the west because Russia kept the state owned industry from USSR in tact. Meanwhile, the fact that DPRK can outproduce Europe should be another cause for concern for y'all.
All is well indeed, especially compared to western economies
Russian economy is booming, and the World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025
The IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html
It's absolutely hilarious how western propagandists have been predicting Russian economy collapsing for the past three years, but it's only getting stronger. I guess there will always be rubes like you who still believe it.
Amazingly no lack of westerners who are dumb enough to believe such obvious propaganda.
The west has been pouring billions into the military industry over the past three years and still isn't able to meaningfully ramp up production right now. Simply pouring money into this isn't the solution, it would take a lot of structural changes to create a functional military industry. Meanwhile, Europe is now in deep economic trouble, and diverting large parts of the budget towards military will only make domestic unrest grow as it will result in further austerity. Political stability is by far the biggest near term problem for the EU.
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