@Griffith@radiofreegreenland.org @MechaSilvio@poa.st Romania and probably every European Warsaw Pact country used to have a very strong army prior to NATO occupation. Officially speaking, a condition for "joining NATO" is, and I am paraphrasing from memory: "making sure that the army is in submission to civillian authority". In other words, make sure that there are no ambitious generals in the army who could coup the western-appointed (american-approved) politicians. :apunotes: There was another condition: a change of military doctrine from "war of the people"-style emphasizing mass mobilization to a "professional army"-style emphasizing a smaller but better equipped army. You couldn't be in NATO without this. Past tense. Because now you can. As the grinding Ukraine war raged on, it became more obvious that it is better to have 500k soldiers manning the front than 50k. So those in charge realized that it is better to do away with the "professional army" doctrine. And then Finland joined NATO in 2023, despite having mandatory military service. (As a sidenote: this change was probably done not only as a result of observing the situation in Ukraine, but also in anticipation of the "division of labor" that hegseth was talking about years ago, i recommend looking it up) Now the US ZOG built their bases in as many places as possible, moved their air defenses here, etc. Some provinces got tens of thousands of US troops, others not so much. But many european vassals either received orders not to strengthen their own armies or they didn't do it of their own free will because they thought american "protection" was enough. Local military industry was also neglected probably because the American MIC wanted to make more money. The american government also never seemed to take issue with the fact that Europe was negelcting it's own armies. So either because of the laziness of euro vassals or because of american order, the EU countries found themselves in this position. From an army of 200+k, Romania had 70k soldiers before 2022. But the complaints from the UK and other cocksuckers about the orange fag are nothing more but exaggerations. They're the complaints of a lazy man being put to work after he was caught slacking off. Nowadays Romanian ZOG managed to grow it's army to 90k soldiers. (If I'm not mistaken this surpasses the UK lmao). Overall I think the eastern Europe provinces are catching up to the demand for larger, more powerful auxiliary armies. 😔 And I wrote this whole novel just for the purpose of pointing out that this attitude of european vassals is not really due to the World Wars, but due to a mix of american influence and butthurt at the fact that now they will have to build their own armies.