the majority of it is in gayrope tho, US holds a very tiny part
i know, but the US keeps the whole financial system on a short leash, so if washington says release the reserves, the madmen east of the atlantic are going to say "make me"?
They have nothing to commit. In fact I forsee mandatory conscription being necessary for Germany, France and the UK if the US does reduce their presence in Europe whether they actually send troops to Ukraine or not. I would hate to be a draft-dodging Ukrainian hiding in those countries when the draft notices start going out to the citizens.
I really dont see how these countries can rebuild militaries without conscription. the US barely manages that starting from 0.33 bln people.
problem is, they even already sold or abandoned all the old infrastructure so they wouldnt even have roofs under which to put the conscripts.
I don't even see how they could do a draft, there would be a civil uprising, can you imagine the amount of people who would be pissed. Take Germany for example, why in the fuck would they want to fight for anyone when all there country does is fuck them anyway.
dont count on any civil uprising in europe. europeans on the average are spineless cucks and they would just write an agry post on farcebook. germans are order followers and they will just go queue at the recruitment center. dont forget what happened for C19. only a minority of people resisted, the rest just complied, many even enrolled as probono enforcers and snitches of absurd house arrests on nationwide scale. then they queued to get injected with an untested experiment, multiple times.
of course, such an army of spineless cucks would be useless even asd cannon fodder.
it will take decades to rebuild the militaries. the rot didnt start when conscription was cancelled, but long before that.
I see where you're coming from. But I still don't see it happening I think you will see civil unrest and the countries would back out of a draft. In the coming years what I think will happen once this war ends is going to being a re-arming of most EU countries. Hopefully this is a wake up call for them. Most of there leaders are leftists though so they probably won't.
Apparently coke is going to be sold in Russia again the war is officially over.
democracies' governments hate the military, and they are afraid of it. thats why in europe after ww2 militaries were transformed in state bureaucracies, only dressed in green or gray, and massive parallel police organizations under the control of the central state were built.
US is an exception because since WW2 it has been engaged in a war or another so maybe they kept the warrior spirit in the military alive, until obama arrived.
europeans will whine and complain but they will comply, but they will be useless in a fight. there will be massive desertion the first moment the troops cant access snapchat.
on the other side, we have a large army, battle hardened, equipped with tactics and hardware the europeans cant even start to comprehend.
its so bad it isnt even funny.
if european leaders had one atom of honesty and integrity, they would realize they better keep a low profile and try to cut the losses.