What I am quite worried about is that the western countries are all rampaging their armed forces. The UK’s Royal Army went from 160,000 in 1982 to 102,000 today and is now being reduced to 82,000.
In The Netherlands, I remember the armed forces (combined) used to count circa 80,000 a few years ago; now it’s about 65,000. They recently decided to stop using tanks at all. The Air Force’s F16s are almost falling apart and the government just decided to quit the JSF project, so probably soon there won’t be an Air Force either. The Navy is almost gone, with half of its ships gone over the last 10 years and the Naval Aviation branch being totally destroyed.
Now when a real war is going to break loose, the outcome is easy to predict: the enemy will win, because there won’t be anybody to even make a futile attempt to stop them……