re: British Army admits Russia could destroy their only remaining fighting unit...

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Sounds like Europe's problem.

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About 2 weeks after the Brits and French shamed themselves at Munich in 1938, FDR called in the heads of the Army and Army Air Corps and told them he wanted 20,000 combat aircraft and the capacity to build 24,000 a year. This at a time when the USAAC had 12 B-17's and a few hundred tactical aircraft of dubious utility. Eric Hammel has called this the most important single meeting in modern world history.



And the main reason FDR started talking about the Arsenal of Democracy, your neighbor's house on fire, lend leasing the Brits 50 warships - a peace time draft- and all the rest after France surrendered to the Germans was that his advisers told him that a United States of Europe under the Germans would be very bad for the US economy.

That hasn't changed. The combat power of NATO is pretty atrophied. The Rooskies have been watching. Big mess.