How rich do you should be to build a strong army? Greece and Poland

Since 2022, Poland has importantly accelerated the modernization of its Armed Forces in consequence to the surge in threat following Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine. However, there are concerns about whether Poland will be able to build up an adequate defence possible while inactive being a little wealthy country than Western European allies or countries specified as South Korea, Australia or Japan. In this context, it is worth looking at the example of Greece, which, with a demographic and economical possible much lower than Polish, has a strong, rather numerous, and at the same time comparatively modern army - compose Jakub Palowski and Dr. Łukasz Stach.