Could they? Easier said than done with your industry and powergrid in smoking ruins and your financial sovereignty being non-existing.
There are estimations that the costs for rebuilding Ukraine minus the 20% lost territory, if the Russian destruction would end now (why would it?), would cost minimum halve a trillion US dollars in the coming years alone. And that is an optimistic scenario. There are calculations increasing this sum by severla factors.
Rearmament and such luxury features are not included in that.
Washington expects Europe to bear the very most of this sum. Go figure.
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