Let me get this straight.... Russia the No. 11 economy in the world who in 2 years has had 315,000 dead and injured, and just spent 24 Trillion Rubles ($346B USD) in Ukraine wants to challenge the:
No. 1 In GDP- U.S.
No. 3 Germany
No. 6. U.K
No. 7- France
No. 8- Italy
No. 15- Spain
No. 18- Holland
No. 23- Belgium
etc., etc.
You just can't make this shit up. Americans are to smarter to believe scare tactics like this.
This is akin to us wanting to attack the U.S.S.R in 1975, post Vietnam. Hell, they abolished Selective Service for us born in 1957, 1958, and 1959, due to the public's tiring of war.