ptldM3
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I think you forgot the collaps of the SOviet Union.
I was responding to "Clear signs that the US is not in control. When a top general starts behaving like a monkey and hurling cheap words you know things are bad. Very bad."
Source: https://defence.pk/threads/usa-general-threaten-to-destroy-russia.453974/#ixzz4MUYzywvG
What is you position relative to that?
Really?
US Army:
460,000 Active personnel (2017)
530,000 Reserve and National Guard personnel (2017)
990,000 total (2017)
Russian DoD
Ministry of the Interior
- Russia Army: 230,000 personnel (2015), does not include Airborne Troops (VDV)
- Airborne troops: 45,000 paratroopers, to expand to 72,000 paratroopers by 2019
FSB (employs about 66,200 uniformed staff, including about 4,000 special forces troops. It also employs about 160,000–200,000 border guards)
- Internal troops 182,000 in 2012
Total Russia: 750,000 max
- Border security troops
Russia has almost 800,000 active duty and around 2.5 million reserves. Stop copying and pasting everything from Wekipedia.