| >economy bending to support an oversized MIC. European defense stocks didnt skyrocket out of nowhere. >Soviet Russia had a struggling economy in the 60s and 70s, Europe is struggling now. >The Soviet-Afghanistan war weakened the USSR's traditional force composition Feeding weapons to Ukraine has severely depleted European stockpiles. >Europe already avoided over-arming themselves like the USSR Theyre literally preparing to do just that. >they have a modernized economy Im not sure Id feel comfortable rejecting an argument based upon the notion that the country that put the first man in space was a country of backward savages. >and they aren't fighting proxy wars against forces they can't beat. Ukraine is quite literally that. |