- Reaction score
- 18,903
- Points
- 1,280
In 2014 no one was looking at gearing up. Back then, Daesh was the big story.we should have started gearing up in 2014 at the very latest. With his actions in Georgia and Chechnya Putin had demonstrated that he wished to rebuild the Soviet Union which would have included the Baltic States and Poland; even possibly parts of Germany but that is a question mark. With what we had available, assuming Ukraine was occupied, what would we have been able to bring to the table to stop those countries from being absorbed? Putin was promising war and we were still scrapping hardware from the cold war with no thought being given to its replacement.
Again, hindsight is 20/20.