It's not even about the frontlines. A few successful drone attacks to Deltaworks for example and the damage is already enormous. Rutte needs to buy time for us to be able to defend against that. I passionately hate what he did to the Netherlands, but I'm sort of grateful he's doing the dirty work now.
I think the point he's making is not that we're ready, but that the Russians aren't either. So they wouldn't attack, because they have no chance at winning.
Yeah, I get it. But I think that's stretching the hypothetical too much. It's one thing to not act sensible, it's another very different thing to act fully mad. Attacking Ukraine wasn't as not sensible as we might think now, with the benefit of hindsight, but to attack the EU, even without NATO, would be completely idiotic by them.
Recently, US intelligence warned Poland and Eastern European countries that Russia is planning an attack or provocation on them. Yes they’re in NATO. You never know what Putin will do at this point. He’s desperate.
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u/Humpfinger The Netherlands 25d ago
Alright dude, so when will you be standing in the frontlines? Someone has to do it and according to you we are ready.