Which is stronger, Russia or Ukraine?
Few in the West understand the depth and scope of familial, cultural, religious interconnection between Ukrainians and Russians.
My wife’s grandmother is Ukrainian, and my daughter is a bit Ukrainian too. My maternal uncle’s wife is Ukrainian, three of my cousins are half Ukrainians. My cousin’s wife is from Dnipro. Many of my classmates were Ukrainians. My boss’s nephew’s wife is from Kyiv.
And it is very similar to many millions of Russians. Population of Ukraine is around 40 million. Russia has 144 million. Thus the network of interrelationships is huge, enormous.
Putin suggests severing them and declaring family members, friends and colleagues brain dead zombies controlled by neo-Nazis. Ruled by a Jewish president.
World War Z. Russian army marks tanks and hardware with Z letters that does not exist in the Cyrillic alphabet advancing to liberate Ukrainian zombies from neo-Nazis. Putin’s propagandists have watched too many Hollywood horror movies.
It is hard to swallow the b-movie script sold as reality in the age of internet and smartphones. To be clear, Russia bombing cities and towns of Ukraine is akin to US bombing Canada, or Australia bombing New Zealand, or Spain bombing Portugal, or France bombing Belgium, or England bombing Scotland, or Rome bombing Vatican…well, you see the pattern.
To answer the question, Ukraine is much stronger - they are fighting an aggressor who launched a full scale invasion of their sovereign country, cowardly in the dead of night previously lying through their teeth that it won’t happen.
Even if the invasion succeeds, guerrilla war, partisan movement, and public resistance supported by the West through sanctioning Russia would drag on for years depleting much of Russian resources, wrecking its economy, and throwing it into the trash bin of history.
It is a war Russia cannot win.
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