air pig:-
weapons manufacture is these day a long term thing, not easy as building Spitfires and Mosquito's was in the past.
So all the more reason for getting started now. Waiting around for his next move, and the one after that, plays straight into Putin's hand.
The good Lord helps those who help themselves. It was a close enough thing last time we played the 10 year rule, this time we'll be lucky if we get 10 months warning of the coming war.
pb:-
Vlad is powerful but he isn't Stalin, too many people in Russia with too many millions/billions in or invested in the west for one single madman to put all that at risk.
In much the same way as German industrialists and bankers were going to control the little Corporal? I shouldn't count on it if I were you.