https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/...aine-6tp2cfgg5
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Europe would struggle to collectively muster 25,000 troops to be part of a “deterrence” force in Ukraine because its armies are undermanned and underfunded, sources have disclosed.
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Man I never would have thought the numbers presented in the NATO sourcebook, after 3.5 years of war and months of nuclear strikes, would represent significantly more than what a peacetime NATO could deploy 25 years later (canonically - 36 years after publication).
{Begin - Old man rant} Has anything fallen further in my lifetime? Quality of appliances? Western Steel production? Pride in ones work? Star Wars movies? {End - Old man rant}