NATO is Weak Because They Pursued Green Energy While Allowing Their Militaries to Atrophy

While European nations loudly protest Russia's aggression in Ukraine, they may only have themselves to blame. Over the past decades, many European nations have spent their budgets pursuing green energy at the expense of their militaries. Now, they find themselves with weak militaries and terribly dependent on Russian fossil fuels.

Worse, experts suggest it will take years in order for them to ramp up their domestic manufacturing in order to match Russia's production of weapons and ammunition, which has surged to an estimated 3 million artillery rounds annually. This involves rebuilding infrastructure, securing supply chains, and increasing workforce and production lines, a process experts warn could take at least two to three years, even with substantial investment and political will.

This is why they have been begging, if not coercing the United States to save them from themselves, not just Russia.

(From Just The News) Europeans are boasting about plans for a greater role in aiding Ukraine in its war with Russia and taking on their own security, but they continue to drink down Russian oil as they may be allowing their own militaries to become weak and severely depleted.

In the fallout from the Oval Office fracas between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, European countries led by France and the United Kingdom have proposed unilaterally shouldering a greater defense burden and supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia.

However, despite supposedly hard-hitting sanctions and tough talk towards Russia, Europe’s lack of adherence when it comes to Russia’s energy industry is mismatched with its rhetoric. A recent study found that Europe’s purchases of Russian oil and gas in 2024 eclipsed its total financial aid to Ukraine that same year.

“Purchasing Russian fossil fuels is, quite plainly, akin to sending financial aid to the Kremlin and enabling its invasion. [It’s] a practice that must stop immediately to secure not just Ukraine’s future, but also Europe’s energy security,” Vaibhav Raghunandan, an analyst at Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, the think-tank that authored the recent report on Europe’s imports of Russian oil and gas, told The Guardian.

For reference from The Guardian:
‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners