Only based on what Putin and his cronies have said
Not all of Europe but the former Soviet states.
Do you disagree with what they themselves said?
I don’t know what they said; probably disinformation anyway, right?
Here’s two different takes from ‘official’ news sources, and from what I’ve gathered Russia is either grossly overmatched by Ukraine’s rag tag army or they’re a threat to rule the world.
By Dan De Luce (NBC News)
1) The Russian military has suffered dramatic casualties on the battlefield
since invading Ukraine in February 2022, according to newly declassified intelligence shared with Congress, a person familiar with the intelligence told NBC News.
In the past 22 months, 315,000 Russian troops have been killed and wounded, according to the assessment provided to lawmakers. Prior to the invasion, Russia had a ground force strength of about 360,000.
Russia has also sustained huge losses in equipment, with 2,200 tanks destroyed out of a force of 3,500 and one-third of its armored vehicles knocked out of action, the assessment said.
Russia in some cases has had to draw on Soviet-era hardware to replace the lost equipment, even bringing 50-year-old T-62 tanks onto the battlefield.
The invasion and its aftermath have undermined a 15-year-long effort by Moscow to modernize its ground forces, according to the intelligence reporting.
And 2)
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentar...ial-ambitions-are-a-clear-threat-to-nato.html