The West is using this Russian invasion to increase military spending and strengthen NATO, for instance the new 30,000 man quick reaction force, and relocating bases farther East, and moving men and materials into locations making them more available to stop Russian attacks on the smaller more vulnerable NATO members.
Putin is playing into the hands of the politics of stronger national defense and NATO unity, even in non-NATO nations like Sweden and Finland there is new talk of joining NATO, and the need to start facing a reemerging evil Russia.
“Poland kicks off unprecedented military spending spree”
Warsaw (AFP) - Looking east to the bloody conflict gripping Ukraine, NATO-member Poland has kicked off an unprecedented military spending spree worth billions to overhaul its forces as Warsaw believes peace in Europe is no longer a given.
probably too little, too late
Most NATO members were cutting military spending for the past decade or two, and Putin has been on a spending spree for at least 8 or 9 years now.
“this Russian invasion”
It was noted on another website today, that if you add up all of the “RUSSIAN INVASION!!!” claims of Kiev’s propagandists, such as EuromaidanPR, Censor, Ukrinform, Informnapalm, etc., that the Russians would have somewhere north of 120,000 troops, 1800+ tanks, well over 1,000 guns and launchers, as well as hundreds of AA pieces in Ukraine.
Those are Operation Bagration type of numbers.
And yet, mysteriously, nothing like those numbers can be found by our satellites, the best the world has ever known.
If those numbers were in Ukraine, Kiev would have fallen months ago, and we’d be reminiscing about how short the Battle of Lvov was.