What you can also see here is that the European military complex, which is largely dominated by Germany and France, is trying to detach itself from its American counterpart. War is now also being used to introduce these so-called Eurobonds in the form of war bonds. Europe, i.e. the European Union, is trying to introduce a new tool of sovereignty by using the European taxpayer as security. in order to achieve this, it needs the scaremongering about a possible Russian invasion of core European states.

Do we have to start thinking about the demographic problem here - i.e. there's not enough young people in Europe to go to war?

That might be one benefit of a plummeting birthrate. Less inclination to war.

failing economies and wars go hand in hand. still don't believe European politicians are eager to go to war. if it was true, military spending and production would have already been larger chunk of the previous budgets. Europe is changing with times. at this point there's too much geopolitical risks to not boost military spending. at the end of the day: printer go brrr