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Nobody was doing that until Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Europe was unilaterally disarming itself. Armies like Bundeswehr saw a 5x-10x reduction in manpower,
by mopsi 3y ago
Nobody was doing that until Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Europe was unilaterally disarming itself. Armies like Bundeswehr saw a 5x-10x reduction in manpower, artillery, tanks and other weapons between the end of the Cold War and 2014. Europe hosted 5000 US tanks in 1980s. The last one left in 2013. Russia invaded Ukraine the next year.
- boffinAudio 3y ago[flagged]
- piva00 3y agoSo you are saying it's justified the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia?
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- mopsi 3y agoNothing to do with belief. The facts about post-Cold War European disarmament are public and well known. German army had 335 200 soldiers, 3826 tanks and 2136 IFVs in 1980. By 2015, the numbers were down to 61 312 soldiers, 225 tanks and 406 IFVs. Same story elsewhere in Europe too, but not in Russia. Russia has been modernizing their armed forces since early 2000s and is currently expanding them by forming two new armies that have a larger size than the ground forces of most European countries COMBINED. That's why the mood has completely changed in Europe. Russia is preparing for even larger war against Europe.
- phantompeace 3y agoI thought you were talking about Israel there, until the 34 million bit.
- ahazred8ta 3y agoThey were spending the Peace Dividend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend