Originally Posted by
langleybaston
What I cannot understand is that none of these politicians has dared stick his/her head above the parapet to say the truth, that Europe needs Russia to save itself from irrelevance..
My long-held suspicion is that the NATO arms industry [all of it] has ALWAYS needed the Russian Bear to justify existence, even when the Bear had bad teeth. As it has now.
The Euros basically unilaterally disarmed over the 1990s and early 2000s, to the point where the collective couldn't bomb a small North African nation into submission. The idea that Europe is somehow this massively armed camp exists only in Minsk and Moscow.