Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "How does Russia's military spending compare to Europe?" video.

Comparisons between Russia and countries like Germany, France and Britain are inconclusive. But more important than the absolute size of their collective economies is that Western Europe has massive and inexorably increasing social spending. It is unrealistic to think it politically feasible for European countries make very substantial increases to their defence budgets. Nato countries are already objectively strong enough to deter Russia, which in three years of war has been unable to capture a city that is 19 miles from the Russian border, and this in a part of the world where Russia has huge advantages in ethnic and geographical propinquity. Absent an outbreak of mass insanity in the Kremlin, they will not even toy with the idea of invading a Nato country. Europe needs to invest in projects for economic growth, not raise taxes for futile military consumption.
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