>If it comes down to European vs Russian manufacturing capacity for missiles and hi-tech weaponry, etc

Well duh, EU GDP is like 3000x Russian one, Italy alone is richer than Russia, so ofc EU military combined is greater than Russia.

Russia is broke gas station with nukes, not really a benchmark for military supremacy.

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citrin_ru 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The US GBP is 100x large than Iranian one and yet the US cannot open the Strait of Hormuz and even defend own bases in the region from cheap drones (52 aircraft lost, most on the ground). GDP is not the only factor when it comes to military capabilities.

	▲	PorciiVorbesc 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>The US GBP is 100x large than Iranian one and yet the US cannot open the Strait of Hormuz The US regime has no support from its voters and taxpayers to get deeper into the IRan war because the US is the one who started it, it's not an existential threat for Americans in the US to spend more of their money or die intervening in the middle east. But for EU what happens in Ukraine is an existential threat and they also didn't provoke the war there, so Europeans are more motivated to support the war against Russia than AMericans are to support military intervention in Iran.

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barrenko 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure are holding their own against the supposedly much richer Europe at this moment.