This is not a military budget problem, the thing is Spain, or France, Germany… have already powerful enough militaries to have ended the war twenty times over. But wars, as Ukraine has showed, aren’t fought or won with money, but with lads being killed and killing the other side lads. The members of the European militaries live pretty comfortably, a pretty good wage just to play boyscouts, try telling them they have to go to die bleeding in the cold Russian steppe…
Money-related thing. I, as a Ukrainian wartime ex-soldier, can tell you that there is a HUGE difference between being a soldier with a rifle and a few grenades in the 50 cm “trench” and a soldier with a few machineguns in their unit, a few mortars and a dozen guys with drones being helped with artillery, aviation and whatnot. Money can improve the latter. And that is extremely important. Even boyscouts could be fierce warriors with such a background.
This is not a military budget problem, the thing is Spain, or France, Germany… have already powerful enough militaries to have ended the war twenty times over. But wars, as Ukraine has showed, aren’t fought or won with money, but with lads being killed and killing the other side lads. The members of the European militaries live pretty comfortably, a pretty good wage just to play boyscouts, try telling them they have to go to die bleeding in the cold Russian steppe…
Money-related thing. I, as a Ukrainian wartime ex-soldier, can tell you that there is a HUGE difference between being a soldier with a rifle and a few grenades in the 50 cm “trench” and a soldier with a few machineguns in their unit, a few mortars and a dozen guys with drones being helped with artillery, aviation and whatnot. Money can improve the latter. And that is extremely important. Even boyscouts could be fierce warriors with such a background.