Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
Crimea is the start of Russian expansion. Georgia is the model for how they will take over all the previous USSR vassal states. If European governments seriously think that the US will draw a line in the sand and spend the kind of blood and treasure it will take to defend them they are seriously deluded.
Putin rightly sees weakness in Western Europe and will take as much advantage as those Western European states will let him. As currently envisioned the “European Army” has no credibility as a check on Russian expansionism.
Watching as NATO members gradually creep closer to Russia proper does sort of make me question the premise of "Russian expansionism'.
Really, these countries all have sub replacement birth rates. Any politician with an IQ higher than a decimal fraction can see that space is not the problem,.it is having people.
Sadly that is a tough problem, nobody has solved it, not the Chinese, not the Japanese, not anyone in Europe, now reduced to importing African 'refugees' to shore up their collapsing demographics.