Paper Tiger is the wrong word. Russia has a dangerous military but is in no way the powerhouse it portrayed itself before invading Ukraine. They had built a small core of a modern professional military that they used a couple of times to great effect but they acted like they'd done that to the whole military. Also, some parts of the Russian military ARE excellent: their electronic warfare capabilities are top notch. They also maintain advanced espionage capabilities.
To be fair, Russia has geological challenges to maintaining an effective air defense; especially in the age of drones. It's one of the reasons they couldn't bring their whole air force to bear in the invasion of Ukraine: they had a huge amount of country to maintain coverage over.
To be fair, even most Russians in their Military and Intelligence thought a large land war in Europe was unthinkable.
NATO hasn’t carried out a single defensive operation in history
So you're saying they were exceptionally effective as a deterrent to Soviet/Russian invasion
The fact that NATO could have utterly destroyed the Russian military at any point since shortly after the end of the Soviet Union handily disproves it and the further fact that most NATO countries let their militaries atrophy after the break up of the Soviet Union also disproves it. Great propaganda doesn't need to be rooted in truth, just establish an out-group who cause all the problems and hold the in-group blameless.
What is "a ban evader"
Republicans: Yes to genocide
Democrats: WE SEE YOU, WE HEAR YOU, but also yes to genocide
I didn't realize there was an acceptable level of bigotry
I think you're giving people too much credit.
Never heard of it though I can imagine the ascetics of it would be off putting to some.
If you remove the US from NATO, the remaining Military Strength of the alliance would have struggled with the Russia Military prior to the Ukraine Invasion and absolutely would have been unable to launch a meaningful ground offensive into Russia.