nato was deemed basically redundant after 1991 and the eu focused more on re-unifying the ex commieblock countries and getting them up to speed developing and integrating with western europe, than any military stuff at all (besides for export). it is sort-of our fault for assuming europe was going to be peaceful from now on and not care that they weakened drastically - that was allowed, and ok explicitly on our part too, because we the us would back them up if for any inconceivable (at the time) reason europe needed protecting from something. well that inconceivable reason sort-of has come up but not with nato either so we're in this shitty situation now. personally i do find it disappointing europe has had nearly 3 years now to get on its feet and produce arms for ukraine, like a fucking lot of them. some nice stuff has been given and made but you'd think considering the economic power of all of western europe, it should not have been hard to set up artillery and vehicle production by now that would be enough to sustain ukraine's defense indefinitely while the soviet stockpile slowly drained out. that's happened a bit but it's at a level like 1/10th that needed and what i expected the yurops could muster.
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