That is one hell of a rubbish list. For starters, lets address the obvious. Russia is losing a land war against Ukraine. A land war that they initiated, meaning that they were confident in winning and had the benefit of preparing as well as choosing the time and place for. That is utterly humiliating and very directly means that Ukraine should be ranked higher than Russia.
As for Ukraine, they are currently in a state of war. If they have not fielded one million men already then they are about to. My guess is that they have long since gone past that but its important to mention since the difference between a country at war and a country at peace is like night and day.
Nothing against the countries on this list aside from USA and possibly India, South Korea and China but Ukraine with its mobilized forces far surpass what they are fielding in peace times.
We also need to ask ourselves why North Korea is not on this list. Of course, its not guaranteed that they will perform as "intended" but they do have a ridiculously large military.
How exactly is this being calculated? "Largest" implies numbers in which case China is larger than the US by a pretty good margin, and Russia can be considered larger by technicality if their paramilitary border force (I forget its actual name) is included (considering they have tanks and gunship helicopters it's not exactly fair to omit them), and this would also make a lot of nations other than the US significantly larger than they otherwise appear.
Typically the best measure of how powerful a military actually is revolves around force projection and logistics capabilities, which are most simplistically represented by the numbers of operational carriers and escort carriers, which typically divides countries into three groups: The USA, every country that has any carriers, and then everybody else who has none. You can also factor in long range bombers and airborne deployment capabilities, which is largely an identical comparison with the notable addition of Russia being significantly higher in this respect compared to scoring their navy.
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Yes as the US is not the largest China is but in terms of military power I'd say top ten are
Not greatly surprised. But the relative ranking of Russia and China was unexpected t me. India fairly obvious, particularly after Chinas border incursions in the depths of Covid (clever as it didn't make headlines with covid).
Pakistan is not surprising with India next door. Ditto with South korea. I am surprised North Korea is not in the top ten.
I would think China is second merely by virtue of its manpower. Then India for the same reason. Frankly, after watching the Ukraine War, without nukes I think the UK could also take Russia. No way Italy should be there and not North Korea or Israel.
By what standard? Clearly the Russian army sux. If not for their nuclear power, they are a joke. Can't even take Ukraine. China is the biggest. USA is fading fast with poor leadership, crap moral and dismay recruitment.
@Iron_Man It’s not that Greece doesn't like Turkey; Turkey constantly tries to create geopolitical tensions by violating the Greek airspace and claiming rights over the Aegean sea. Actually Greece provided tonnes of assistance in the recent earthquake in Turkey
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