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Do you have any evidence to go along with that claim? I'd guess if the US could spare people and equipment, it would be moving much closer to China at the mome

• bee_rider 6y ago
  The EU has a combined GDP more than 10x that of Russia. Russia has some advantages -- having one of the world's biggest nuclear stockpiles means that they basically get to pick their conflicts, and being an arms exporter means their military R&D is in some sense subsidized by other countries, but still, that's a pretty big deficit to make up. And they have notably not picked any conflicts that the EU would find existential. They are just set up differently. The EU doesn't have a central military, so they can't do foreign adventures very well, and as a result they don't invade places very often. But this could be seen as a good thing...