(With apologies for the enormous image size.)

Oh god, and it looks so happy to have it’s hat! Its adorable!

I don’t think I’ve ever heard somebody say something posative about Kinja.

But anyway! Back on the PC now so can actually post links... ..probably.

Yup, I’d link but I’m currently on a mobile and Kinja has a religious objection to posting links, formatting, working properly, not randomly inserting chunks of words intototo what yoururur typing or just not being an arse in general. And no, that wasn’t a deliberate thing at the tail end of that sentence - that’s…

My friends, I bring to you tonight something wich will serve to stimulate your most refined of Jalop senses. This is no mear titiliation, but rather serious and profound... ..material of an Adult nature.

Thus I must ask that all Ladies, the infirm, children and those of a nervous disposition do not peruse further.

Have…

I wonder if this coal is the stuff they are digging out of the Donetsk mines as fast as they can before they get kicked out again?

That’s a typo, its RWD and AWD.

You will bow down before the might of Skoda... ..now excuse me, I need to see if I can swap a real engine into this tank. Something reasonably acquainted with the meaning of the word “economy.”

Why in gods name would I want to invade Russia?

Well if we go from their figures of 774k troops then it’s still two times smaller than NATO - without NATO’s reserves even counted in.

That’s the official figures from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

If you have better ones I’d be facinated to see them.

Erm... ..no.

The US fields an army in excess of 546k, with reserves of a further 559k.
France: 111k
The UK: 89k with reserves of 55k
Germany: 59k
Spain: 75k
Italy: 102k
The Netherlands: 21k
Portugal: 44k
Norway: 11k
Canada: 22k with 13k reserves.
Denmark: 25k with 63k reserves.
Poland: 18k
Romania: 43k
Slovakia: 16k
Slovenia: 7k
Turke…

Russian strategy has been one of numbers over quality for centuries.

Their entire force makeup is centred around having more weapons and troops than their opponents - lower quality, but greater quantity. Defence in depth, attack en-mass. It’s worked well for them for the majority of that time.

Now they have both lower…

What army are you talking about here?

We can do math.

Russia has smaller, and lower quality, forces than Europe. Hell, a combo of France, Italy and Germany on their own have more men than Russia does - even with Russia’s conscripts factored in. Factor in the UK, Spain, Holland and the various smaller states and we probably have double the number of troops.

T…

It’s the mid 1990’s and there’s something new on the Touring Car tracks:

That depends - on one hand their conventional forces are hopelessly outmatched in any kind of stand up fight against a serious world power. But on the other they still have that decaying nuclear stockpile just sitting there, and Putin is quite probably crazy enough to think of using it.

He’s already got his mouthpeices…

It had it’s redeeming qualities.

*Pictures it in pink* Oh Christ it does.

Is it bad that I prefer this look to the real one?