In a shocking-not-shocking exclusive report published in The ( UK) Times, Europe “would struggle to put 25, 000 troops on the ground in Ukraine” as a postwar peacekeeping force. The outcomes are both disappointing and sobering, and Defense Editor Larisa Brown “was given a rare insight into conversations between Europe’s defence ministers and military chiefs as they thrashed out plans for a” coalition of the willing ‘ force.”  ,
Advertisement
And you are aware of how much I detest sobering.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the head of British defense, questioned European defense ministers about putting together a 64, 000-strong force to send to [Ukraine ] in the event of a peace deal. Britain offered up to 10,000 workers, but even then, “defence officials across Europe said there was” no chance” they may reach that amount and that even 25, 000 would “be a force for a joint work.”
This is not the NATO of your father.
The British Army of the Rhine, which had a power of 50 000 men and was on guard for half a century in West Germany, was given the assurance of quick reinforcements nearly as quickly as the balloon went away.
Without wheezing like an allergic with a lung infection climbing up Kilimanjaro, NATO as a whole don’t now establish a peacekeeping force in Ukraine of half that length.
NATO was always more shattered and weak than it should have been. NATO people were separate nations, each with its own interests and needs, in contrast to the Warsaw Pact on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Paris was rant about British “hyperpower” at any time, but we didn’t deliver in the tanks when France withdrew its forces from NATO command and imposed a ban on NATO troops in 1966. This was before Moscow. We simply made complete.  ,
Advertisement
And while Washington was right to demand more “burden-sharing” from our friends during the Cold War, it wasn’t as though they didn’t take the Russian risk significantly. For a total of 38 fight brigades, the East European Bundeswehr consisted of 10 big Panzer and Panzergrenadier divisions, plus another section for flying and rock forces. That was the Field Army, exactly. Another 450 000 men made up the Territorial troops, which included older men who were being called up to defend their places, towns, and properties.  ,
How’s the deal, though.
West Germany increased those forces from a population of 60 million with a GDP of$ 1.6 trillion in current dollars. Unified Germany has 80 million citizens, a GDP of$ 4. 7 trillion, and a military made up of three groups that are understaffed, undertrained, and unfit for battle.
The balloon went up in Ukraine more than three years ago, but Poland is the only substantial-sized NATO part that is really regrowing.
CDR Salamander, a blogger, summed it up yesterday by saying,” Europeans demand hundreds of thousands of Americans to quickly install to Europe to defend them against a country with a GDP of Texas and a population that is 1/14 of the size of European NATO.” These are from nations that acknowledge that they were unable to gather 25, 000 soldiers for Ukraine, despite their own security relying on it.
Advertisement
Therefore, President Donald Trump is not trying to undermine the empire, as his critics claim. He is not. He warns about the group’s goal and its members ‘ existence, as well as the possibility that America has a long history of indolence.  ,
It shouldn’t be either. And defense ministers in Europe only acknowledged that, too.  ,
This California Dem Wants to Decriminalize$ 25K Welfare Fraud, According to a California Dem.
Do you find PJ Media’s conventional reporting on the woke media and the radical left interesting? To keep bringing you the fact, please help our work. Use the discount code Duel to save 60 % off your VIP account when you sign up for PJ Media VIP!  ,
