No it doesn't because the claim was that most of them have prepared for war. Most have not.
> Dragnets absolutely are. Every piece of intelligence matters.
This isn't, and it's not even marketed as such because that would be too patently ridiculous. It's sold on the lie of keeping children safe.
> Yet the dramatic rise in defense expenditures across Europe after 2022 and my own personal experience working with people in this space has shown a mixture of both.
There is no dramatic expenditure rise which indicates a build up for war across most of Europe. It's gone up a few points across the EU over many years and has just now barely breached the global average.
The claim was that this is justified because it is an adequate preparation for war, and preparations are being made for war, and therefore it is being done to prepare for war and is good.
None of those things are true. At best they're wild conjecture which are at odds with other facts. They are not an adequate preparation for war. Preparations for war are not being made. And they are not being done to prepare for a war.
> A major conventional war will happen in the next 5 years, and everyone is in the midst of preparation for that.
Almost no countries in Europe are preparing for invasion. If anything they are slightly upping deterrence factor, but they are not behaving though they fear being invaded, nor do they have any serious capability to participate in a major conventional war outside their borders, which is likely to involve China and be centered in the Pacific.
No it doesn't because the claim was that most of them have prepared for war. Most have not.
> Dragnets absolutely are. Every piece of intelligence matters.
This isn't, and it's not even marketed as such because that would be too patently ridiculous. It's sold on the lie of keeping children safe.
> Yet the dramatic rise in defense expenditures across Europe after 2022 and my own personal experience working with people in this space has shown a mixture of both.
There is no dramatic expenditure rise which indicates a build up for war across most of Europe. It's gone up a few points across the EU over many years and has just now barely breached the global average.
The claim was that this is justified because it is an adequate preparation for war, and preparations are being made for war, and therefore it is being done to prepare for war and is good.
None of those things are true. At best they're wild conjecture which are at odds with other facts. They are not an adequate preparation for war. Preparations for war are not being made. And they are not being done to prepare for a war.
> A major conventional war will happen in the next 5 years, and everyone is in the midst of preparation for that.
Almost no countries in Europe are preparing for invasion. If anything they are slightly upping deterrence factor, but they are not behaving though they fear being invaded, nor do they have any serious capability to participate in a major conventional war outside their borders, which is likely to involve China and be centered in the Pacific.