2024-11-20
Interest of Justice points out that the European nations - well, their Foreign Ministers anyway - I don't recall that any of them asked their electorates - have got together to publish a joint declaration on defence - naturally defence against the presumed aggressor to the East who must be resisted at all costs - costs that will inevitably now fall on the EU rather than on Trump's America.
Given that the EU plus US combined efforts over several years have resulted in the deaths of over half a million Ukrainian soldiers and an ever advancing and ever larger Russian army that has destroyed almost all the fighting equipment previously sent to the Ukraine, and continued to relentlessly take ground in furtherance of military objectives rather than headlines, it's unclear to me how this defence will be accomplished given that the EU without the US will struggle to mount even a limited campaign even if it could muster its troops toward the front lines.
And as for conscription - I think their populations might have something to say about that.
And even if they didn't, how long could the Ukraine hold out whilst all those conscripts are conscripted, inducted, disciplined, trained, and finally melded into a real force capable of fighting a foe already well-versed in the arts of real conflict?
