“I love when countries like France and Germany start issuing red lines to Russia with no real ability to back it up....”
Military spending in 2020:
Russia - $60.6 billion
United Kingdom - $61.5 billion
France - $55.0 billion
Germany - $51.3 billion
Italy - $29.3 billion
Poland - $12.04 billion
Russia is not the USSR that could easily overrun Europe. If Putin wants to throw down with the Europeans, the world will learn very quickly how small a country Russia is today.
Russia fighting from their homeland would be quite formidable. They’re weapons technology and warfighter ability could overrun the whole of Europe without US or Brit support.
I agree with you, but you and I both know that NATO and specifically Germany and France would not be provoking Russia without the USA being involved....
Way back when in 1941 Germany had a technological edge and probably was outspending Russia significantly and for a year inflicted heavy loses on Russia...
France also had a large army with more tanks than Germany and was overrun in no time...and that included the British as well...
There is a long history of foreign powers underestimating Russia only to get bogged down and suffering a miserable defeat....
All I’m saying is why antagonize Russia is NATO and USA really ready to go to war over Ukraine, I know as an American I could care less about them
France ran out of bombs taking out Ghaddafi. No idea where that 55 billion goes but it’s not toward anything actually useful.