TIL: Canada's economy is the same size as Russia's.
Russia may seem like a great power but it's actually a house of cards and beyond their nuclear weapons I'm now surprised at how weak the responses have been over the years to Russia being a bully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_GDP_(nominal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_population
Russia is "only" the 11th biggest economy in the world and is 9th in population (Canada is 9th and 37th respectively. The EU is 450m people (vs 120m Russians) and it's total GDP would be #3 after the US and China (Germany, the UK and France are #3, #6, and #7 respectively).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_expenditures
Russia's military spending is sky high though - #3 in the world and 5.9% of GDP but the EU is more than 3x Russia's. Ukraine itself spends about 60% what Russia spends plus whatever it's getting from other countries. That said, the US spends the most by far - almost 9x what Russia spends and nearly 3x the EU but because their military is located in so many places it's not the most efficient military.
I sorta knew that Putin was propping up the economy with the war but there's really no reason why the EU couldn't win this war by themselves if they wanted to - it's just a matter of will (they have to accept the costs in terms of money and potentially of lives especially if Putin wants to put nuclear weapons into play).
Trump abandoning Ukraine makes it harder for Ukraine to win but I don't think it's game over now - the EU just needs to lean in on this (and they should).
Edit: Canada is 16th in military spending - not terrible but certainly not where it should be but even if it spent 2% of GDP it'd still only be 12th. I think Canada may want to consider what it would take to spend 3-4% of GDP as it can't rely on the US any longer and Russia is right there.