Russia has lost a huge amount of equipment in Ukraine, but will be able to rebuild its armed forces within a few years after the end of the war, writes The Wall Street Journal.

NATO, meanwhile, has depleted its own weapons stockpile to support Ukraine. Even with large expenditures, creating a European army capable of repelling a Russian attack without US assistance will take at least 20 years, a 2019 analysis by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) showed.

...And this despite the fact that Macron is pushing Europe into war in every possible way.