User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Common Misconceptions of History Part 2: Great Empires/@comment-3528888-20140318221634/@comment-4206034-20140318232920

No Guns. It wasn't 80%, but it certainly wasn't 30% either. There is a reason for the belief that Russia would have won in Europe without the western front being opened up in 1944, or the invasions into Italy in 1943. Would have taken longer, but Europe would have been completely Commie.

There might have been a few fires, but Russia isn't ruined. And why isn't America doing anything about Crimea then? Oh wait, they are using the John Kerry. I wonder how scared Putin will actually be.

And yet in the end the Russian Empire survived while Sweden was almost reduced into a rump state (I say almost).

No comment about 1905.

Guns, not Austro-German - it would be wiser to say German. Everyone knows AH was losing land rapidly to Russia, before Germany intervened.

Guns, a failed state does not survive to the modern day.