ORAC,
Your "But the moral collapse of Europe is even worse than the military collapse. All the armaments in the world do no good when the will to use them is absent" is so bitterly true. It was at the root of the French collapse in 1940 (and might well have been the at the root of ours had not Churchill stepped in in the nick of time).
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but the size of the fight in the dog.
D.