By their own admission the armed forces of basically all of NATO countries are in such a bad state that it will take decades to recover

The media keeps telling them that each "Saint javelin" (actual circulating meme) takes a gazillion orcs every time it's used, likewise for every destroyed leopard or Bradley. The leap from this to "sure, it's in Bad shape, but together we shall persevere!" is not that far away.

No european NATO country has the military industrial capacity to compete with Russia

Not everyone in Russia understands this, much less in Europe