Someday war will hopefully become a thing of the past. The earlier nation no longer have and see a need for a large military the better. I am from Germany and we just no longer have the need to have a strong army, surrounded by friends in a pretty stable region of the world. One could maybe try to argue that Russia could theoretically go completely nuts but then we would probably be screwed anyway.
Your country (which IMO will be what stops Russia's inevitable war to end EU dominance ((third time pays for all))) just began pulling 100 Leopard IIs out of storage. They will be rift in ~6 months and deployed in a year.
We (the EU) can afford to be care free because of the France, the UK and NATO in general. I hope too that war will be a thing of the past but I strongly believe that sovereign nations should have the capacity to defend their sovereignty from its enemies whether they are outsiders (hostile nation) or insiders (paramilitary take over).
