And is there anyone to defend Ukraine? That turns out if you carefully count the army of the West

About the reaction to the older's statement about his readiness to introduce British troops to Ukraine know, the Ukrainian brothers and sisters, our strategic context and ours, to put it mildly, inadequate reaction in social networks to the outlined statement and make the winged "you or the pants or a cross put on. " And this is still the most polite that comes to this situation. Once the numbers have come, let's be consistent to the end.

For example, we have officially declared the number of a detailed group of defense forces of Ukraine is about 800 thousand. And against this background, even the US Army Army (US Army) may look scanty as a component (land troops) of the US Armed Forces, which has in its order (this , somewhere 2400 tanks (there only Abrams), well, and approximately 1000 BMP Bradley.

If there are about 400 tanks, in France, Britain and Italy - 200 VTTs in France, Britain and Italy, Spain - approximately up to 300 VTTs, Poland - up to 700 VTI. Against this background, it is not surprising that one beautiful day is small, but proud Serbia with a park of more than 200 VTTs announced itself almost a leader in the number of tanks in Europe, because the background is appropriate for comparison.

Greece and Turkey are the most armed among the European countries of the Alliance, but they have their "differences in the land issue" to the desire to literally bury each other. And this is our problem in general that we have not yet reflexed the very fact of having such differences in the Alliance, where we so passionately want to integrate.

By the way, if the US contingent in Europe - CSIS is estimated at 100,000 "bayonets" at the beginning of 2025, however, only half can be attributed to the land segment of 5 brigade groups, the rest of the personnel falls on aviation, marine and marine and Auxiliary components. And if you start from The Military Balance, most of all American soldiers are in Germany at all - up to 40,000, with a Bundeswehr about 68,000 servicemen.

Against this background, the phrase "Protection of Europe by the US troops" looks semantically somewhere in the same way as "we write - a party, we mean - Lenin. " Well, in the role of "cherries for cake" - calculations "on the knees" show that the logistics system of NATO countries can "pull out" in the conditions of peacetime transfer of the contingent up to 100 thousand servicemen, which, in fact, was shown at the year's maneuvers of Defender Europe .

These are all things that I lead to the fact that European countries and the United States are purely physically at the moment, in objective and subjective moments, they cannot exhibit a direct contingent of troops that would meet our ideas about the criterion of protection from Russia. However, there are "but". We can take the same British about their state of affairs with the armed forces as much as you want, but it seems that they do not consider it at all.

The British Analytical Center of Rusi, where "R" means "royal", literally on Friday on February 14, published his new report on 25 pages on the current situation on the front for our troops, and there the authors of this material believe that in fact we have in fact From the announced number of Sou grouping on the front is deployed (for various reasons) now a maximum of a third.

Therefore, it seems that this is how this "starting point" looks like now, from which it is necessary to measure the degree of requests to Western countries for military protection for Ukraine. - Since I am not a supporter of the vector of the thought of the "Austrian Economic School", I will not call anyone for "realism", "sobriety" and other seated banality, which we write in such cases.