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Anyway, drones have reshaped tactics so much that i doubt that those tanks would be useful for anything today.

Drones (which also have their limitations) have made the old tanks specifically much less useful, but armored vehicles are still dearly needed in that conflict, especially APC's (you can't easily acquire and hold territory if you can't get troops to that territory quickly and safely), and those are in very short supply, as evidenced by many videos of Russia now using motorcycles, golf carts, ATVs, and old cars for assaults and troop transport.

they still hold a few cards. They do have a nuclear arsenal and they really want us to believe that they are stupid enough to use them in case of need.

The same could be said of EU countries with nukes, but I'm not sure how that's relevant in regards to them attacking the EU, as they can't realistically use their nukes offensively without triggering mutual destruction, and no country is lining up to invade Russia to trigger them to use those defensively.

They have a solid net of spies, mostly around ex USSR countries and they pretty much found the way to weaponize our ellections.

As effective as their spy and propaganda network is, I don't think they'd be able to get enough EU member states to get to the point of basically disarming themselves and welcoming a Russian invasion force.

Also… they dont have any problem rising slave armies and throwing them at us…

You mean North Korean soldiers? Jong-Un sent a relatively small number of troops over (30k out of their 1.3 million strong army) in exchange for technological help from Russia, and because it offered an opportunity for the North Korean military to get some combat experience. It is extremely unlikely they would commit a significant portion of their military to helping conquer the EU when they're always so paranoid of South Korea invading them.

To add to that, western "democracy" is on the ropes. Supporting Israels genocide has cost them most of their credibility-- whether they were bullied into it by the US or not. The very concept of "Democracy" is hardly what we would have claimed it was even 20 years ago. And capitalism is in a stage of gross excess with no signs of fixing itself. Fewer people are willing to pick up a rifle and die for that.

How do you figure the China/Russia combo are going to overcome Europe still having nukes? That they'll just gamble that no one will have the guts to use them and roll across the border?

The entire weight of the Russian military and decades of surplus are struggling to incapacitate a single, relatively poor country that's operating on table-scrap military hardware that the wealthy EU countries are willing to part with. China are propping them up because it's both highly profitable and politically expedient, but if anything, Russia has shown that they'd be the equivalent of Mussolini's Italy if they became involved in a larger conflict; a liability that needs to be bailed out time and time again after constant fuck-ups.

I could see China making a go for Taiwan, but all of Europe? I'd have to see some much more concrete data that shows they'd be able to survive economically losing the EU as a trading partner during the course of such a prolonged conflict.

I agree on just about everything, except:

At this moment, Europe's the only real democracy left on the planet that can't be taken over through social media targeted ad brain washing like the US.

I wouldn't be so sure:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/29/number-people-britons-must-be-born-in-uk-rising-study

I can grant that the UK isn't "Europe", but this kind of mentality is rising all over.

I'd also say that it's really about billionaires subjecting the working class to their will. I think they salivate at the idea of Chinese or Russian type government, implemented everywhere. Unruly or undesirable populace? Round the whole lot of them up and send them to a work camp! Hell, they are already doing that in the US with amendment 13. Not too big of a leap if they are already rounding people up and deporting them to random ass countries they had no affiliation with.

And if they get their data centers built, they'll be able to "parse" through all this data they've been collecting and storing on us for over a decade now. That parsing will be AI based but will it really matter if it gets it wrong and the wrong person gets caught up in it?

Counter point. The people who aren't in russia want to live, so it can be harder to get them fighting.

GDP

But what about real life economics? Do you think Russia can afford less military buildup for 1 million versus US?