Talk about damning someone with faint praise, Western Europe has not even begun to recover from 35 years of short-changing their militaries. Manpower numbers are at near record post WW2 lows, and they are only now - after nearly four years of active war (and a mere TWELVE years after Russia seized Crimea the major EU economies (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, the UK) still haven’t gotten back to any where near the spending levels (as a percentage of gdp) they were spending during the Cold War - far less the troop strength levels.