I found Donald Tusk’s statement somewhat comforting, so I visualised the metrics of what he said for my newsletter—although I couldn’t resist correcting him on the figures he quoted. What are your thoughts on this?
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Love this! Visualisation could put so many more numbers in perspective.
This is a bit misleading. You can't compare - apples to apples - the military of a unified and autocratic country (with 5k+ nuclear weapons) with that of a loose coalition of 27 smaller, democratic and independent countries that can't even agree on a unified fiscal policy (let alone foreign policy and defense). Also, with 1/10th of the nuclear warheads (not even evenly/strategically distributed). I'm also pretty sure that a large amount of military age men in EU (especially in western europe) would simply flee in case of war (they can't do that in Russia). I think it's in EU's interest to leverage things where they're strong at, like economic relevance and diplomacy, than to fake military strength (especially if in questionable and potentially dangerous ways). Of course having its countries meet NATO spending targets is another topic and it can serve both the goal of fostering military deterrence AND strategically keeping the US as a military ally. I'm not an expert, but this is the idea I formed about this in the past few months. I might be wrong.
Really? 143 M Russians want to wage a war? Please re-think in terms of how much popular support the war gets there.
Maybe insert two parallel columns with (1) the estimated conventional military strength and (2) number of nukes for each of those groups, and your meme that lacks basic understanding of key factors in geopolitics (i.e. military power) will tell a different story.
It’s overly simplified message based on either shallow analysis and low intelligence of the author, or/and aimed at not particularly bright audience following on a not quite clear agenda.
That's a nice slogan, but you should understand that wars are not won with numbers alone. Not even in the middle ages, and much less so today.
Not tired of beating the drums of war yet and playing with fear? Gott 🙄
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2w(each figure shown above represents around 1.113 million people)