> Education we're #1 there's no question about that.

Education is about social mobility, a chance for anyone to participate depending on their intelligence/grit/motivation.

You guys only have education for the rich/elite.

If you have to pay for it, or be lucky to have parents next to good schools then you've failed.

> But nukes aren't enough.

Lookup french nuclear doctrine to see discouragement effect.

Also, european NATO is capable of bombing conventionally moscow/other russian cities in case of war with some losses.

Eliminating Putin/Leadership would probably stop any war.

That would probably be the first counter to any invasion with threat of using nukes as a threat to keep russia from going for nukes. (losing moscow/sankt petersburg might be too much for russia same as paris/berlin would be for other countries)

The other counter is some rapid deployment of troops to hold off any russian troops and make it very deadly for them until leadership decides to retreat.

Ucraine can't do that.