Why did many Western European nations feel they were no match for the Soviets in the event of war?

Due Soviet Union outstanding military unit supplies, and because most like they enter war late.

Explanation:

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

they believed democracy was worth the fight