Europe’s west, after 4 years, is finally waking up to the fact that Russia is not just waging war against Ukraine but in fact preparing another war on the rest of Europe. The digital attacks have moved on to outright sabotage via arson and bombing as well as drones in major EU cities. Only now are they beginning to understand the extent of the problems they face because they didn’t prepare for Trump either.

If Western Europe doesn’t switch to a war economy to start producing weapons, artillery, and drones en masse, training soldiers and preparing civilians for war (both mental, physical and digital), they will be caught nearly unprepared for a Russian invasion and a capitulation of Ukraine.

If Ukraine wins the war with the dismal contributions of Europe, we will be very very lucky to have bet on Ukraine’s ferocity and Russia’s inability to keep a war economy alive long enough.