This only emphasizes the need for NATO to reinvest in radar-guided anti-aircraft guns. Frankly, it's a bit troubling that the Europeans have been so slow to respond to the war in Ukraine (e.g., EU artillery shell production still vastly lags Russia's despite the Russian economy being the size of Italy's). With the US looking more and more like an unreliable security partner in the region, the time for the Europeans to revamp their military industrial complex was yesterday.
As a West European: apologies. It's not like we don't have history books but it seems that nobody bothers to read them anymore. Also: people here are just too bloody gullible and Russian trolls and bots are having a field day. I sincerely hope that we will come to our collective senses but I don't see many signs of that.
And frankly speaking there are little reasons for the west to. Ukraine has already largely contained the conflict and bled out russian military a lot. No need to worry, russia won't attack NATO territory within the current electoral cycle, after which nobody cares what happens next.
Probably not. And if they are that stupid (which seems to be a bad bet, few thought they'd be stupid enough to get themselves into the current predicament either) it won't end well. But electoral cycles are too short to deal with dictatorships that do not have such cycles.
