Has Russia ever lost a war?
Afghanistan in the '80s. It was Russia's Vietnam.
I would say they lost the Cold War too... I mean they ultimately broke up into a whole bunch of countries.
Who do you think would win in a war between the European Union and Russia.
The nations of the EU (which basically means NATO since they are tied to each other, but I'll exclude the US, Canada, and others not in the EU for argumentative purposes) vs Russia... The E.U. is comparatively as powerful as the United States from a total GDP perspective (EU is actually larger than the US), and based on the NATO alliance has the majority of the same types of equipment that the American's have positioned in their countries who have developed the absolute best with their world leading military expenditures. Additionally, many of the countries alone in the EU have larger GDP levels than Russia. Germany, UK, France, Italy are and Spain almost is larger than Russia. In total, the EU collective GDP is about 14 times larger than Russia allowing for superior tax base for the military (speaks to the age and level of the current military equipment in each country). If you look at military expenditures; you will see according to this data (
http://books.sipri.org/files/FS/SIPRIFS1604.pdf) that European expenditures are about 5 times the size of Russian expenditures. If you compare military equipment, Russia would have the edge in total still from previously huge military expenditures in the '70s and '80s, however, the bulk of their equipment is pushing thirty years or older (ask France what old equipment meant to them when they tried fighting new equipment of the Germans during WWII with equipment that was only about ten years older on average) and based on some reports Russia has only about 10% "current age" equipment. Whereas, due to NATO policies of sharing defenses, there is some of the most current and best equipment in the world positioned in EU (NATO) nations. Lastly, what rules the day in modern warfare (like P&W) is air superiority. The NATO based air power (fighters) in the EU nations is far superior to the Russian fighters which are, once again, mostly thirty plus years old. The Russians might make some head way on the ground early, but they would never make it far because the EU nations would take the air superiority allowing for an effective ground/air attack.
None of this means anything though, it would never go down like this since the threat of taking this from a conventional war format to a nuclear based war format would mean it is incredibly unlikely to ever occur. If it does, we are probably all screwed.
- red
