US Secretary of State Blinken called the Russian army "second in force" but in Ukraine (video)

In the ratings of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, "second place" for more than a year. However, according to Blinken, the reality has proven to be somewhat different and now the best results are shown by the Ukrainian military. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation the second most powerful army in Ukraine. The politician said this during his speech in Finland on June 2. "Many believed that in Russia the second army in the world.

Now the Russian army in Ukraine is now in the Russian Federation," the politician said. In 2017, the international company Global Firepower published a rating of the Armed Forces of different countries, made according to the materials of their own research of analysts. According to experts, as of August 2017, the US Armed Forces was recognized as the strongest army.

America's championships in the rating contributed to the fact that the Pentagon spends the most in the world on the maintenance of its army. In addition, as of 2017, the United States had an advantage of the number of military aviation and Navy ships. The second place in the rating was the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Russian propagandists and politicians almost immediately "picked up" the expression and began to use it on any occasion.

It should be noted that, according to Global Firepower analytics, in 2023 the rating leaders remained unchanged: the US and the Russian Federation. But Ukraine raised its rating and rose to 15th place. Recall that on June 2, Anthony Blinken said during his speech that the United States would help Ukraine build a "army of the future".