'If the U.S. and NATO increase their military spending and conventional forces in Europe,' warns a new Cost of War Project report, 'the weakness of Russian conventional military forces could prompt Moscow to rely more heavily on its nuclear forces.'
Thursday that the United States boosting military spending in response to Russia could lead to a nuclear confrontation.
Goldstein's paper explains that"historically, threat inflation has led to disastrous and unnecessarily costly U.S. foreign policy decisions," and"Western strategists have a long tradition of overinflating Russia as a threat." Reducing that risk requires recognizing that, as the report says,"Russia is a weaker conventional military power than many in the U.S. had imagined; thus, there is no additional cause for intensified fear of a Russian military threat to the U.S. nor for the resultant expansion of the Pentagon budget."
Due to its relatively low military spending,"Russia doesn't seem to have a military that is capable of protracted, large-scale offensive action, let alone expeditionary operations, that could threaten U.S. national security," the paper says, detailing poor performances by Russian aerial, cyber, ground, missile, naval, and space forces against Ukraine this year.
"Russian armies are completely unable to march on Paris or Berlin, let alone Warsaw or Bucharest now or in the foreseeable future. It is plain enough that they could not even conquer Kyiv," the document states."Yet, the horrors of Kremlin aggression, which cannot be minimized, have also galvanized a new effort by Europeans to take their security into their own hands."
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