By having economic policies akeen to war-time policies

Russia taking Belarus or ukraine is different because it's a small %

so they can actually hold it

Also large % of Belarusians/Ukrainians are loyal to Russia

Similar cultures

Same race

No they literally lived under russia for like 150 years

made up countries

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capital of Russia was Kiev Ukraine

Im Russian-Ukrainian myself

I'm just saying invading like

Poland would be an absolute failure

Poland is the new Germany

Also with Ukraine/Belarus Russia just funds insurgents

It's economy is growing on par and will soon overtake in rates against germany

War is useful, without it we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't have any of this land.

War is necessary to purge the weak

Not taking into account nuclear weapons

You can't attack a nation with nuclear weapons nor a country in a nuclear umbrella

No one would use nukes against a nuclear power

MAD policy

lol u wot

MAD works with land invasions too

oh you mean in a full invasion of the country

Ukraine wasn't in a nuclear umbrella and neither was Iraq/Afghanistan

then just invade everyone else

So yeah you could feasibly invade countries that aren't alligned with a nuclear power

But then those countries are quite worthless

Not necessarily

Non-Nuclear World War 3 would be nice tbh

What would there be for America to gain?

Technological advancement at an accelerated rate

Economic skyrocketing

Stronger sense of nationalism

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In what scenario does America being at war with its economic interests overseas or having them damaged inadvertently make the economy "skyrocket"?

GDP only increases artificially during war because war-related industries are given financial incentive to expand dramatically. This wealth does not reach "the people", the economy as a whole doesn't benefit.

The USSR for example had their GDP expand rapidly during WWII but their economy was basically shredded.

And what technological advancement would happen in a world war that wouldn't happen in the petty police actions we have today? If anything it would be stifled because there would be less money to give to ambitious projects that are really just money sinkholes like the F-35.

At least I assume that's your reasoning, that war would drive innovation.