They're all in the EU, so it would invoke the EU defense pact as well. As we can see right now, our stuff seems to be decent enough to scrap those ancient sovie

They're all in the EU, so it would invoke the EU defense pact as well. As we can see right now, our stuff seems to be decent enough to scrap those ancient soviet rust buckets. Also don't forget that France has the Nuclear Reset Button available. I count on them to convince the Russians not to deploy nukes. We need an EU army nevertheless. And to deploy this army we'll need some proper governing entity for the EU.