Panic Fever – Will Schryver
As 2026 ebbs away, all of Europe is running a panic fever in the face of the creeping realization that the Americans intend to leave them to their own devices against the Russians — and, worst of all, against each other.
As for fighting the Russians, this is the plain reality: if the handful of intrepidly willing European nations were to start tomorrow, in earnest, to assemble the necessary forces and accoutrements for 21st century high-intensity battle, they could not, in five years, organize, outfit, and deploy an army of even 100,000 combat effectives — a number which would be swallowed up by a war for which their experience, training, tactics, arms, and logistics are woefully ill-prepared.
There are no easy wars left to fight.