I don't understand what a bigger army of men is going to do for us?
If it all kicks off between superpowers everyone will likely be incinerated anyway.
The less prepared we are, the more enticing it looks for the likes of Russia to even think about doing something, in that respect it has strong preventative value. This situation can go quite a few ways yet, if things did kick off in the Baltics for instance it doesn't necessarily mean things will escalate to nuclear war. As I see it though the longer term outlook is going to be more a return to the worst days of the Cold War with an uncertain security nightmare on the borders of Europe, which again we need a strong preventative value to put any notions of it going further to bed.
Nuclear weapons tend to disincentivize wholesale action but Russia might still gamble on some version of the so called salami slice tactics.
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