User blog comment:Olimario849/The Independence quiz/@comment-24397893-20140906092626/@comment-6812733-20140906174021

Zeph, if you checked the sources you would've seen that those were troops with the ISAF operation, by UN (led by NATO mostly, some had independent leading like Sweden and Finland) so that's not an intervention, it's protecting the people not fighting the terrorists. We even had a tv show about those troops, they usually just sat in their bases and went to check up if the people from some villages were alright. If they were attacked then they fought (in one of the episodes they were but that was a defensive situation for them, they didn't chase the attackers) but they didn't really go to support even when they had intellegence that some NATO forces were under attack multiple times.

But back to the main subject, in the 40's Germany was pretty much able to provide everything they needed by themself, Russia on the other hand cannot since West put sanctions before war, unlike against Germany in the 40's. So there's the economy that needs to work in order for Russia to keep that fighting up. Even China is right now against Russia which isolates Russia pretty much complitely.

Batran, it was neither, it was just funny to me since that guy has been saying how much independent Finland would be as an oblast of Russia rather than as a member of the EU.