Putin has an economy about the size of Texas.

Granted, he has a shitpot of nukes, but that is all he’s got to threaten the US.

Meanwhile, he is threatening the US and the EU, which has a total GDP of around 31 trillion $’s a year, while Russia’s GDP is around 1.5.

Meanwhile, Sweden (not NATO) has advanced forces south into the Baltic Sea, ready to support the Baltic States if Russia gets frisky. Finland (not NATO) is also grumbling (no love lost there) about Putin being a regional asshole who thinks he is a global player.

And this is Putin’s problem. He’s a minnow who thinks he’s a shark.

He rules an economic extractive kleptocracy that distributes spoils to the 100 families that have ruled the USSR/Russia since Stalin’s death in 1953.