#1 You should really check out the current real strengths of the European armies and Russia... The European Union is already strong enough to defend against Russia, an opponent not even close to being as rich, less populated, in a bad geostrategical position, with a budget stretched extremely thin and terrible availability rates.
The trope that European armies can't stand their own don't stand close examination. If you just look at wikipedia, yeah, the Russian army looks numerous and well equipped but the truth is that it is divided between a state of the art and well trained spearhead that amounts to about 100~200k soldiers and conscripts with outdated hardware that suffered for almost two decades of poor maintenance.
Russia is a paper tiger.
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