A credible European deterrent – one that could prevent, for instance, a rapid Russian incursion in the Baltics – would need a minimum of 1,400 tanks, 2,000 infantry fighting vehicles, and 700 artillery pieces. This is more combat power than currently exists in the combined French, German, Italian, and British land forces.
@HK65@sopuli.xyz https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/07/16/with-war-on-its-doorstep-could-europe-embrace-compulsory-military-service-once-again
You live in a dreamland. Don’t take Wikipedia’s numbers as accurate. None of the EU militaries can send troops into a battle in any substantial numbers. Why do you think everyone in power is freaking out, FFS! Delusional.
Your list is missing top militaries in the EU, like Poland and Greece. I don’t know how to take the whole thing seriously.
Everyone in power is freaking out because the situation where we might have to defend against an US naval invasion is not impossible, and we are not wholly able to do that, as while we might be able to sink a few carriers with Nordic subs, the airforce is not ready to fight back against the US.
Nobody is afraid of the Russian army beyond their hybrid warfare, which we are already being hit by since 2015, and nukes, which we have enough of our own that Russia knows we can glass Moscow if they twitch wrong.