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Your statement is outright false as Russia overtakes all of Europe on defense spending in key metric
An important detail in the article is imo:
Your statement that Europe has "nukes staked illegally all over the place" is as false as the link you provided is pointless. There's nothing illegal except Russia's aggression and invasion of Ukraine.
The former Czechoslovakia has emerged in two countries (Czech Republic and Slovakia, just in case you don't know), the Warsaw Pact dissolved more than 30 years ago. Francesco Cossiga was Italian President in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
And these are just three of your many weird statements that are completly irrelevant regarding Russia's illegal and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine that started in 2014. Your false and obviously misleading statements discredit you.
You may wish to read a history book or two instead of the communities where you read this rubbish.
Maybe if European neighbours didn't cause so much tension, then there could have been a reduction in the billions spent on the military.