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I think we can get some idea of what Russia would risk from how the acted with the Ukraine.

Shadow warfare, proxy warfare, territory annexation.

It would be a serious escalation in strategy and risk to invade and annex a Baltic state. It seems unlikely to me, for what it's worth.

Turkey is expanding their influence on their neighborhood, but they won't seek out conflict with the EU, that's suicide.

Turkey and Russia could be a problematic situation though. They're similarly sized economies, although Russia has a serious military advantage.




> Turkey and Russia could be a problematic situation though. They're similarly sized economies, although Russia has a serious military advantage.

Russia's GDP is twice the size of Turkey. Russia is more similar to UK/France/Canada than Turkey.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...


Yes, but growing much more slowly than Turkey and with problematic demographics. This could be an issue in a couple decades.




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