“I am yet to hear from anyone serious inside the U.S. administration, and I stress anyone serious in the U.S. administration, saying that they are somehow withdrawing from NATO,” Stubb said at an event at London School of Economics.
“What President Trump is doing now is correct. He is putting pressure on European states to increase their defence expenditure … and take more responsibility for their own security,” Stubb said.
The size of the stick is purely about comfort level. You seriously suggest 140 million Russians will beat 480 million European union population. With better industrial capacity, more planes and so on.
They bogged down with 40 million Ukrainians.
What having USA buys “it isn’t even a fight”. Which seems to be many peoples comfort level. My comfort level is “99% it isn’t a fight, 1% it is a fight, it won’t be a walk over picnic to Moscow”.
I also could get driven over by a drunk driver tomorrow and that is more likely, than Russia attacking us in next decade even without USA on our side.
“Owwww please daddy USA, save us from having to have any level of risk to concern with at all, 1% of risk is too much risk”.
Majority of European fighter jets depend on US suppliers for spare parts and maintenance for a start. Same with helicopters. Also, the Europe as a whole has problems on delivering even the most common artillery shells to Ukraine in quantities they would need.
So, as I mentioned, our military is well capable of stopping Russian invasion at the border, but holding it on the long term requires allies and co-operation. Also, size of the population has very little to do with military capabilities, which was proven by Finns a few decades ago and currently in Ukraine.