All this talk of EU and NATO countries needing to spend more on defense to counter the imminent Russian threat is obviously not the real motivation behind increased spending.
If one were to imagine such a world, for the sake of useless navel gazing, what else would need to be true for Russia to not only want to use military force to annex or occupy or even conduct limited air strikes on a NATO member or one of their allies but be confident that it’s military could meaningfully conduct such a massive operation while defnding from the inevitable retaliation from the entire west?
Idk I’m baked at work and can’t really understand why people are so easily sold on this idea that Russia is about to conduct full scale war on Europe
Current NATO armies are such a shitshow that Russia would have a decent shot for military victory, but you can’t just defeat geography and logistics so the invasion of entire Europe is not very feasible.
Fascism need enemy and reality be damned, after two centuries of russophobia Russia is just Bad, inside of that statement everything goes. Although it is really kind of shocking how far that can go: