Originally Posted by
Xeptu
It doesnt go un-noticed the shi#t hole they live in the back ground either.
For Orac, it has always been up to Europe to deal with Russia. Europe can be greatful it wasn't against NATO countries on multiple fronts before exposing Europes unpreparedness. That may have had a very different outcome, when Russia had the manpower and equipment to do it. Ukraine has done NATO countries a great service.
What a load of cr@p.
There is a difference between attacking Ukraine which has until relatively recently a government of Russian shills, with Soviet tactics, Soviet equipment and Soviet Doctrine.
And say attacking Greece on the flank or Poland in the centre.
Greece with its 28 Apaches and 170 F16s or Poland with its 50 F16s and MQ-9 Reapers. They only have to hold out for 48 hours before the rest of NATOs air assets arrive on scene in numbers. And that is with a completely surprise attack without any European armies building up in the area. Not to mention Greece's 380 Leopard tanks or Poland's 250 fighting a defensive battle that is part of their design criteria.
Europe isn't woefully unprepared, it has enough to smash Russia within a couple of weeks, it doesn't have the spare equipment to give to a third party country like Ukraine that doesn't have the training or the tactics to take this equipment into battle - yet.
What Europe is doing is revising its forces for the next 5-50 years and plugging the gap left by countries that aren't prepared to take the threats seriously like Ireland and Austria.