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New Leaders of the Free World

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Whitewavemark2 Sat 01-Mar-25 10:00:55

Now has to be Europe.

Trump has totally abrogated that leadership as a result of aligning himself with Putin.

It must begin to be constructed this weekend at the summit called by Starmer.

M0nica Sun 02-Mar-25 22:21:52

fancythat

^Either way, the European armies working in concert, can out perform the Russian army. Once considered an effective army, following its performance in Ukraine, it doesn't even feature in the top 20.
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Sorry, I cant keep up with everything, so may have missed something.

When you say "out perform", I presume you mean, troops on the ground?

No, I mean better armed, better trained, better motivated, better disciplined and better led. All things crucial for the successful operation of a modern army.

If Russia had had a good well trained, well led, well resouced and well armed army, the invasion of Ukraine should have been a piece of cake. It wasn't because however big the Russian army is in numbers, in every other way the army was rubbish (to put it politely).

To quote my last post While there are many armies in the world bigger than the armies of the individual NATO armies, there seems to be a general consensus that the best trained and most effective armies in the world are all European.

In modern warfare, numbers are not that relevant