[DesertRhino]

We do spend a lot of money on Europe’s defense. Defense against a non-existent threat. The Russian army is about 10% of the size it was in 1989 when the wall fell. And the best way to not even need NATO is a healthy robust trade relationship between Russia and Europe. That is if peace is really the goal. In truth, there is a lot of money to be made by the connected people by the continuation of the Cold War.

[Zhang Fei]

[The Russian army is about 10% of the size it was in 1989 when the wall fell]

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1/4. NATO members have slashed even more drastically. It was all the UK could do to take the Falklands back from a toothless Third World country like Argentina during the height of the Cold War.