Comment by codedokode
14 hours ago
Interesting, I always had an impression that Europe is weak. Maybe this is an effect of us reading different media?
As I know, many European countries do not even have mandatory military training for their citizens. Military production is also very low, despite having much more money than Russia, Europe is not capable of producing a comparable amount of weapon and equipment (see how they failed to deliver a promised amount of artillery shells). While Russia could save and restore Soviet-built military factories. Also, European weapon is more expensive to produce. Also, psychologically europeans are corrupted by their rich comfortable lifestyle and are not likely to move from their comfortable homes into the trenches. Also, migrants in Europe might choose not to protect their new home land in this event. Also, historically, if you look at WW2, most small European countries were occupied in weeks or even days without much resistance.
Don't want to offend anyone but rather to remove a rose-colored glasses.
The rose colored glasses are on the face of many people who look at how putting is spectacularly failing against a country that simply wants to be in europe and not the europe itself and think russia is well armed. "Have a lot of shitty equipment from last century" is not "better armed"