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What makes it difficult to stop Russia's push into Europe is that China is backing them. China has essentially unlimited money and manufacturing and China has technology that is competitive with the West.
By standing armies currently..
Russia: 1,500,000
Ukraine: 800,000
Poland: something like 250,000
Germany: 225,000
France: 225,000
The big fear is if Russia gets all of Ukraine they will add the Ukrainian army to the Russian army. At some point Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia and possibly more would flip fully to the Russian side. As they are either Orthodox and/or friends with Russia. Small countries in the Balkans and the Baltic including Finland would not be able to hold out against Russia + Ukraine's armies. Finland could potentially go neutral in that case and make a deal with Russia.
By standing armies currently..
Russia: 1,500,000
Ukraine: 800,000
Poland: something like 250,000
Germany: 225,000
France: 225,000
The big fear is if Russia gets all of Ukraine they will add the Ukrainian army to the Russian army. At some point Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia and possibly more would flip fully to the Russian side. As they are either Orthodox and/or friends with Russia. Small countries in the Balkans and the Baltic including Finland would not be able to hold out against Russia + Ukraine's armies. Finland could potentially go neutral in that case and make a deal with Russia.