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I think it's to slowly increase offenses _that won't lead to military response_. The response to each individual incident, worse than the one before, kinetic action can be delayed because "this was only a little worse than the last one".

This compounds because NATO needs to act collectively to effectively act militarily (maybe Poland could go it alone).

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Europe could just conscript migrants for the AFU but alas it's politically impossible. Would at least prevent the domestic anti NATO propaganda.
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The famous salami tactic (Yes, Minister)
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Just send more aid to Ukraine and it will be raining oil again in Moscow.
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> Because the Kremlin wants europe to take an overt action to justify mobilization.

Do they? Why? They're already in a stalemate of a conflict, why would they want more fully-mobilized enemies?

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Russia wants an excuse to justify mobilization in Russia, not in Europe.
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Really? Unless they are complete morons they realize something. If you take EU governments, any random country, as a general rule government expenditures go like this:

35% pensions (usually also has some health care here)

35% social security and health care

15% education

15% everything else, roads, bridges, government buildings, ... (army is in here @ maybe 5%)

They're also drowning in debt, of the non-tiny, only Germany does better than the US. So they can't realistically borrow to finance this for 5 years. They're trying to cheat, and treat the EU like a separate country (meaning get investors to treat the EU as a separate state that is not on the hook for the debt of member countries but levies it's own taxes, then borrow against that, but EU countries are cheating, for example using money the EU borrowed for military purposes to fund general expenses like fixing roads)

If the EU countries mobilize the army will go to 20-25% of government expenditures easily.

That means either pensions or social security HAVE TO go down 15% (or 7.5% each). That will cause a revolt since a great many people can't survive like that. At that point there will be no choice for a lot of people but to tear the government down.

That may be the plan of course.

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