Facing russia Alone: U.S. Withdrawal Would Force Europe to Acquire 400 Fighter Jets, 600 Tanks, and $300 Billion in Additional Arms

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1. Snippet from this news analysis:
   “Should the United States ultimately decide to pull back and relinquish its role in ensuring European security, European countries would need to invest an additional $1 trillion to build the necessary military capabilities.
   According to a recent report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), around one-third of that amount (at least $344 billion) would need to be spent directly on weapons and military hardware. The list of required systems is staggering, including a minimum of 400 fighter aircraft and 600 main battle tanks, along with numerous other types of armament.

   From a financial perspective, IISS estimates that over 70% of total rearmament costs would go toward air and naval forces. This may seem paradoxical, considering the primarily land-based nature of a potential conflict with russia. However, the imbalance is due largely to the high unit cost of air and naval platforms rather than operational priorities.

2. The article doesn’t mention drones have had a significant change to modern warfare. Is their modeling of modern warfare up to date or based on ideas from 20 years ago?

3. What happened, Europe didn’t say thank you?

   Jokes aside, looks like if US withdraws, Europe would caught naked.

4. and Europe will able to contend with the US as a army….

5. … I’m pretty sure they’d need far more than that

6. Doesn’t this basically mean the USA will sell all these current or old weapons to Europe and make huge profit while getting themselves out of Europe security entirely

7. The EU needs to rush to protect itself. It’s also a fantastic opportunity for the European defense industry.

8. If I was europe I’d dissolve into the soviet union just to spite America, and start doing trade with china. Let them instantly suffer for their actions.

9. 600 tanks is something like 10% of the combined total losses of tanks in the current war. 

   So, those 600 tanks are going to be incredibly strong and effective.

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