Posted on 06/01/2024 11:25:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Europe has only a fraction of the air defence capabilities needed to protect its eastern flank, according to Nato’s own internal calculations, laying bare the scale of the continent’s vulnerabilities.
Russia’s war against Ukraine has underscored the importance of air defence, as Kyiv begs the west for additional systems and rockets to protect its cities, troops and energy grid against daily bombing raids.
But according to people familiar with confidential defence plans drawn up last year, Nato states are able to provide less than 5 per cent of air defence capacities deemed necessary to protect its members in central and eastern Europe against a full-scale attack.
One senior Nato diplomat said the ability to defend against missiles and air strikes was “a major part of the plan to defend eastern Europe from invasion”, adding: “And right now, we don’t have that.”
Nato foreign ministers will gather in Prague on Thursday for two days of talks aimed at preparing for a summit of the alliance’s leaders in Washington in July, where beefing up European defence will be a central topic.
Some European leaders and military officials have said that Russia could have the capability to attack a Nato member state by the end of the decade.
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If Russia attacks NATO, within 24 hours there will be little left of Russia, most of Europe, much of the U.S. and China will prevail by default.
Official title;
Dictator with a Napoleon complex.
If they have been avoiding serving their country in time of war they are no better than traitors. Do traitors deserve any better?
If the American mainland was invaded, even though we despise our current leadership, would you fight or flee to Canada with the progressives?
There is NO GOOD GUY in that war; I simply root for the invaded underdog.
NATO is the embodiment of GloboHomo Satanism. I pray for its destruction daily.
Of course they are, they believe in a one-world government, just like the American military industrial complex.
It’s hilarious, since the 1990’s and the “new world order”, NATO, which after the fall of the USSR, had no practical reason to exist, has moved steadily eastward into neutral country after neutral country, with American bases and troops moving eastward with them. Nowthey want to put NATO bases on the 2100 mile border between Ukraine and Russia. And they call Russia’s move into eastern Ukraine as “unprovoked.” Only idiots with no knowledge of history could think that.
If there’s an imperialist aggressor in this it’s the United States’ government and their lapdogs in Western Europe. If there’s a government that wants war-war-war and wants to destroy another country, it’s the United States’ government. The American political class is the author of this and so many other wars around the world, and they need to be destroyed completely and utterly for the good of mankind.
For this current Regime, you dream up every possible diplomatic and military mistake that you do not want to do - and they do it !
With the current Trudeau/Globohomo Regime, if Canada was invaded now I would join the attackers !
Yes.
Thanks for your intelligent, and historically accurate response. We’ve been fighting proxy wars with Russia and China for decades, but idiots think that just one more proxy war will save the world. They never have, and never will. All they do is spill blood, destroy countries, ours included, and make the investors on both sides of the political aisle richer through their investments in endless war.
All they need is more of our tax money.....
I agree with you, but if they get attacked, we will come running to their aid.
Which is cheaper for US taxpayers?
Zelensky presidential term expired on May 20th. By what authority can he order this?
When the Baltic States and Poland send their militaries to fight in Ukraine, who’ll be left behind to defend their own borders when the Russians and Belarusians massively attack them?
Zelensky presidential term expired on May 20th. By what authority can he order this?
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St Z is now an illegitimate President- the West is not admitting it, but much of the non western world knows it. When the Ukies finally are brought to the negotiating table, St Z will not be there to sign their surrender, most likely he will have been given the Mussolini treatment.
What’s being said in the vid?
Some poor Ukranian kid is being dragooned into military service. They apparently gave him a choice of charging face first into Russian cannon fire or joining up with the Zeepers here in the States. He chose the former.
They need to start working on drones and drone defenses !
The game changes rapidly once a war starts.
It’s a thing about America that we have forgotten since 1945.
We think victory in war is about resources - money, weapons, technology.
It’s about warriors before any of that. The Marines who took Pelileu were tougher than the Japanese who held it.
If the balloon goes up, it won’t matter what air defenses Eastern Europe has. What will matter is fire in the hearts of the defenders and blood lust in the hearts of the invaders.
Hah, The EU commies don’t even know that they are the commies now. LOL
They need to start working on drones and drone defenses !
The game changes rapidly once a war starts.
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