[raizer88]

>The protection from external threat (russia) is coming from the USA, and russia won't last very long anyway.

Eu is giving much more aid than US https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-tr...

[denton-scratch]

The suggestion that "russia won't last long anyway" sounds like famous last words. They might manage to lever Putin out, sometime in the next couple of decades; but I can't envisage a route to a Russia that's at peace with its neighbours, short of complete Russian military defeat in Ukraine.