Why can't Europe defend itself?

[gaelic cowboy]

You are only factoring in conventional forces, AND you are ignoring the fact that Europeans would rather surrender than fight a sustained war. Why do people always like to underestimate Russia?

your overestimating the Russian ability to meddle in Western Europe to the extent that even Stalin would never have dreamed of. Wow Europe cant fight a sustained war well neither can Russia fight a sustained war like there was in WW2 there all far too dependent on technology than they ever. The war would have to be short maybe a year at best before the inventories would run out and the industry would need to fire up to replenish the army but the industrial heartland of each side would have sustained severe damage most likely causing someone to collapse and my money is on Russia.

And yes of course I'm talking conventional forces how else would they fight a European army you seem to be a bit obsessed by nukes well let me break it to you there a terrible use of millitary hardware and money really. Any nuclear option by Russia would end in the destruction of Russia by NATO plus the world obviously thats why the Nuclear option is not worth discussing here who would be left to surrender too.

lol, I think that you are underestimating them, and the fact that they would most likely have China as an ally. They do not even have to occupy most of the countries as long as they get they own regimes in power, and use the resources of the country to suppress itself.

China is not gonna be Russia's friend they will be far more interested in profiting from Russian weakness in Central Asia after the war which you seem to believe is inevitable actually happens.

You keep saying Europe would surrender but I see no convincing argument from your posts so far while plenty have given plenty reasons why Russia could never profit from a war.

Nazi Germany was unable to stop attacks by ordinary Frenchmen why would Russia and it's puppets be anymore successful they would have to exterminate everyone to stop them, however by trying to kill everyone they end up inheriting a continent with no people to tax and there really are no resources worth exterminting 300/400 million people for unless there is a stock of Element Zero underneath Paris I never heard of.