Sorry to be so Euro centric today but things from there just keep catching my eye
The germans are conducting a military exercise in urban combat in Berlin right now
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Its just oddly telling, with a full time military of less than 200,000 armed forces Germany could not realistically even hold its own borders if they were under threat let alone send a detachment to another NATO country.
A few months ago the French (the largest military in western Europe, wrap your noodle around that one) wanted to prove they could move a whole heavy tank brigade from France to Romania to simulate an attack from Russia requiring a NATO response and the real kickers were they wanted to do it with NO usa help and in 10 days.
It took them 7 months, and they ultimatley never could get the tanks there beacuse they couldent get across rivers they encountered. Failed Operation called Dacian Spring 2025
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Note the dates on these articles
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Its honestly hard to get the story straight as its so embarrassing but nearest I can tell is they had to postpone the tanks almost 7 months and they are there now but its speculated they needed US Airlift to make it happen. All this for maybe 5,000 troops and their equipment.
And here this Italian source from earlier this month say the entire exercise has been canceled
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So if russia was to invade Europe proper, the largest military in Europe would not be able to get its military to the front in time to stop, perhaps half of europe being consumed without a fight. Lord knows it would take us atleast a month to get division sized army groups together and shipped overseas.
Just slightly concerning, I know most see Russia as a paper tiger but they have well over 1,00,000 battler hardened full time armed forces, Europe, on paper, could front maybe that number but they are all separate, half or more would be defeated in detail before a large army could even form.
So thats why you have German army guys playing around in the sewers like they are going to defend the city not the country.
Anyway sorry for Euro posting, those fuckers just have a 2 for 2 reputation of getting the whole world into a war over dumb bullshit so I try to keep up with their retardation. They are also our only countrymen on this planet so, there is that.