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Agreed with all that, not seeing anything controversial or questionable. But I do have one question. Why are many EU military leaders, such as those in Poland and Germany, talking about the threat from Russia in coming years?
Far as I can tell, Russia is draining their men and materiel. How are they to be more of a threat in the next few years? I'm all for EU arming up against Russia, but I can't see a credible threat any time soon. What do they know that I don't?
Several likely scenarios are possible, and we need to account for all of them. Russia is still producing massive amounts of war equipment every day and many reports are suggesting that a lot of it is not going to Ukraine anymore. Same reports suggest Russia is also training new troops that are not sent to Ukraine. So in the scenario that Ukraine does not win and the Russian economy holds up for a while longer than expected, we are in big trouble. We can't take the risk of just assuming that Russia will collapse.
Their industrial manufacturing capability is completely ramped up and they are running a war economy.
Only reason they are able to go on this long is because they are rapidly replenishing their man and material resources.