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Yeah, Russia, the very big power, who takes three years and over a million casualties and still hasn't completed a "special military operation" that totally isn't even an invasion.
Trump's brain is trapped in 1970, so for now I guess so are we.
Brain?
1970? More like 1950, kindergarten times.
I agree that Russia has performed pathetically in the war, yet European governments still seem to be shitting themselves given their scrambling to increase defence spending. Russia is both strong and weak.
My understanding is that NATO currently has the capacity to absolutely wreck Russia in every engagement, until they run out of ammo. So the new spending is supposed keep them from running out.
Ammo factories ain't cheap and even getting old machines running takes a tonne of time and money. Fun fact I knew a guy in northern Idaho who worked at an ammo factory with machines that dated back to WW1 though they have been upgraded, he was a racist prick.
It's unfortunate that the machine upgrades didn't improve his racism.
No but the brain lesiones definitely made his racism so much more blatant.
A lot of the increase in defense spending seems to have been in response to America being ruled by Trump and Europe realizing they can't rely on us for protection anymore. Trump has talked about leaving NATO. When your strongest ally seems to be backing down from defending you, you're gonna increase defense spending to make sure you can still defend yourself.
There's also a chance that America will not only be an unreliable ally but an aggressor. They have to defend against that as well as what's left of Russia's capabilities (which will again be temporarily strengthened if they sack and destroy Ukraine).