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"No, they're not stupid enough to overspend as do the Americans.
European NATO / EU has more military power than all its neighbours (Med Arabs, Iran, Russia, Belarus) could combine against it. Any call for them to spend more only reveals that the caller is either perfectly irrational or perfectly incompetent."
They should be chastised for not meeting their treaty obligations which they signed up for in good faith. The combined military power of a fractious coalition (NATO/EU) can in no way be compared with a monolithic military power like Russia. Unified decision making, acquisition, logistics and doctrine matter.
Russian defense spending is more than twice the average NATO member spending (% GDP) and all of that done in a country with a very low cost structure and excellent energy and rare earths resources. Add to that more tactical nuclear weapons than the rest of the world combined..
"And that's what I think of your (Marauder) other positions as well. It's obvious your favorable sentiment towards yet another military power prestige item cam first, and whatever poses as reasoning came later as a fig leaf."
And here I was hoping for a nuanced counter-argument on technical matters. Sigh..
Jun 3, 2015, 12:11:23 AM
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