Comments by "Gabor Rajnai" (@gaborrajnai6213) on "Two years on, what progress has Ukraine made? | DW News" video.

  1. Theres already a weapons shortage in Eastern Europe and neighboring countries teaming up because they lack critical defense systems. Sorry, but that much could be given to Ukraine at the moment.
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  2. Yeah, I actually checked, the Finnish military is the 56th strongest military in the world, just to put it into perspective, the Czech military is the 32th, Sweden is 26th, they are actually in the same league as the military of Croatia. So no, they are a very low end military even inside European NATO, and they would require a ton of foreign troops in order to being defendable. And meanwhile theres no difference between the strategic axes of defending Germany or defending Poland or Ukraine, Finnalnd is on an entirely different axis. Which means troops have to be split in order to defend central and northern Europe as well, instead of focusing them on a single vector. Thats the reason why Americans always wanted the Swedes in, the Finns not that much, they were good as a netural bufferstate between NATO and the Russians.
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  3. Make a diplomatic rift between Russia and China. With some concessions Europe could achieve China not supporting Russia, in that case they wont have any other chance than to retreat.
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  4. Well, strategically NATO actually lost by admitting Finland. It has a minuscule military and a 2000 km long border with Russia. In any hot conflict their protection will be a high burden on the alliance.
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  5. Yeah, Estonia have above avergare GDP spending, that doesnt mean that their military is actually capable, thats the curse of being a small country. Finnish artillery is somewhat big, with its 1500 units, but not that particularly big since Poland have 3000 units alone. Thats the only part of the finnish military where they outperform. They underperform in tank numbers, fighterjets, they maybe having a dozen, airdefense per squaremiles, attack helicopters their total reservist pool is something around 1 million, which is particularly low even if you compare that to eastern european microstates. Combined with a nonexistent navy to amintain a Finnish front is a logistical nightmare without domestic weapons production, airlifting capabilities, or any way to resupply the country.
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