Ticking clock: Northern NATO defense chiefs see ever-closing ‘window’ to prepare for Russia. Five NATO defense chiefs laid out for Breaking Defense how they view the timeline until Russia could be ready to invade a NATO nation.

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1. Why on earth would they go full YOLO

2. That’s the biggest mistake putin could ever make. Nato would show that venomous little midget exactly what a 3 day SMO should look like!

3. Article actually states: “If [the war in] Ukraine was to come to an end, I think you’ve got two other factors that come into play. For the Russian army to reconstitute itself back to where it was Feb. 22, is probably at least five years. And what we’ve seen is that the army that embarked on operations Feb. 22 is not a particularly competent army. “

4. The Brit’s comments about NATO essentially facing a Russian army similar or worse than the one in 2022 is perilously flawed. Despite what many want to believe, the Russian military has evolved and adopted throughout this war. And while they are still fundamentally incompetent in a lot of ways and have burned through a lot of their vehicle stockpiles, they haven’t just stayed the same organization. One needs to prepare for the next war, not the current one. And the next war will have a Russian army that will be different than the one in 2022, one that has learned a number of lessons from its atrocious aggression in Ukraine. All I’m saying is, the world overestimated Russia before, then underestimated them. Let’s stick to the reality.

5. Hopefully Putin’s nuke card is now putting into a test. It’s time to take out this stupid gas/oil mafia boss. NATO needs to stand up.

6. Guys. I get we don’t like Russia. But what are we even talking about here? Setting aside that invading a nato nation means instant nuclear war, Russia can BARELY hold onto 20% of Ukraine. You think they’re going to open up another front, and have success? If anything NATO way over-prepared for Russia in every possible aspect. Sorry but ‘Russia is going to invade NATO!” talk is total nonsense, and even if they did, they would get horribly crushed.

7. So let’s summaries.

   You still have one-million-army ally, but you want to allow it to slowly fall and be conquered by your enemy. Meantime to use this sacrifice as opportunity to “prepare”.

   Congratulations, you are bloody idiots.

   Yeah, sit and wait for ruzia to come for you with two millions of seasoned veterans, good plan.

   PS: “prepare” is in quotes because current temp of NATO countries preparation is times slower than current ruzian build-up, and that’s on background of NATO been far behind in weapon production in the first place.

8. Russia is already invading a prospective new member state which is Ukraine. They are not a member yet, but Russia denies Ukraine has rights to self determination. It is wise to plan for problems.

9. It depends on tRump winning.