It takes 20 years to prepare against the USA without the USA without USA.

It is noted that according to expert analysis, Europe will take at least 20 years to create a force capable of resisting Russian invasion of Lithuania or Poland without US participation. At the same time, Russia will be able to restore its military potential in much shorter. "Although a huge number of Russian equipment has been destroyed in Ukraine, many European officials say that Moscow can restore its army for several years after the war.

In the meantime, NATO has exhausted its own weapons stocks to keep Ukraine in weapon , to equip and train forces, European governments face immediate and rigid compromises on costs, "WSJ writes. Experts are convinced that in order to do without the US, Europe has to spend 3% of GDP annually on defense.

According to a recent study by the German Institute for Economic IFO Economic Research, most European countries can reach 2% of military expenditures if other government expenditures are reduced by less than 1%. But in order to reach 3% it is necessary to transfer several percentage points of government expenditures for defense. IFO estimated that although NATO's military expenditures have returned to the 1991 level at 2023, social expenditures have increased more than twice.

During this time, they absorbed almost 50% of government expenditures. This made Europe dependent on the US in the military. EU military experts are currently considering how NATO can act without US support. We will remind that the EU faced the problem - from the armies of NATO countries began to be released by soldiers. Because of this, Croatia began to seriously reflect on the possibility of returning military service, and Denmark wants women to do except for men.