Subject: Re: Denmark’s Dirty Little Scret
Putin's recent actions seem to have focused their attention admirably.


I'll grant that it's better than it was just a couple of years ago. But a ready NATO looks like it did in 1990. A ready NATO also has secure energy supplies.

A German think tank looked at how well Germany was re-arming. Their assessment in 2024...wasn't pretty:

https://www.kielinstitut.de/pu...

After decades of military downsizing, German military spending is woefully inadequate to meet the new strategic challenge posed by Russia—as both a new report by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the new Kiel Military Procurement Tracker show. In combination with a cumbersome national procurement system and depending on weapon systems it would take Germany as much as a century to bring its military inventory up to the level of 20 years ago.

When the NATO countries start getting serious about having secure energy also then I'll believe they're viable partners like they used to be.