On paper, maybe, but wars aren't fought and won and lost on paper.
I think that is exactly the point. Hitler retrieved the Rhineland with a rag-tag proto-army that only later became the feared war machine of the Wehrmacht. France could have swatted him back to Berlin with one arm. They did nothing. Britain did nothing. The rest is history. Strength comes from a coherent assertive foreign policy based on one's own national interests, with a military prepared to back it up if need be, and the will to use it. Putin has it. We don't. All the rest is faculty-lounge masturbation.
Right you are; brilliant analysis by VDH. /s
I guess that’s why Britain would have fallen, too, had it not been for Hitler’s idiocy...and the world might have been a much different place.