[justrealist]

I hate to break it to you, but Ukraine, even before the outbreak of full-scale war, had significantly higher effective military capacity than Germany.

Ukraine has been at war since 2014 and has hundreds of thousands of experienced reserves. Germany has an air force that can barely fly, and a few dozen tanks that mostly don't work.

They are nominally NATO, but it's only on paper and as a staging ground for other NATO countries — German armed forces are almost entirely deadweight.