Once this hot war is over, assuming we’re not all dead, the conflict will settle into a new generational, multi trillion dollar cold war. With this gambit they cash in immediately and for generations. They and their children will be cashing billion dollar checks for the foreseeable future. I put the over under in May of last year on General Dynamic tanks sold in Europe over the next decade at 5000. That prediction looks pretty much spot on. Have you seen that Finnish border? How much can be siphoned off the hundreds of billions it will take to arm it?
It doesn’t take much to defend that area because most of it is trackless, frozen wasteland that no invader is going to be able to traverse, much less move supplies through.
Finland is under no threat of an invasion from Russia, a nation of 142 million. The EU dwarfs Russia economically and demographically. Russia doesn’t have the ability to invade and occupy Europe. They are having a hard time defeating Ukraine.