- The treaty recognizes France as a nuclear power, a European army with France inside could easily argue as "heir" of that right.
- A first -order power, with true military intervention capacity in a global way, has to be able to block decisions at the UN, another thing is to remain in second. That is matter in hand, play with the elderly
Ok, my failure, I believed that if the problem was to spend your defense budget on US weapons, the option to spend it on non US weapons was evident. In any case, surely the French, Belgian, Spanish or British defense industry would be happy to have new clients
Luckily that is a problem with a solution as simple as obvious
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures
Just taking Germany+France+Italy+Poland+Spain already comes more than what Russia spends
Nor am I a military expert, I do not know how reliable they are that data or I will discuss the efficiency of the expense, but I am sure to have 27 army generates many inefficiencies that could be resolved by centralizing things
Ok, I am delighted to hear that, vote the rejoin, in EU we will be happy to negotiate adhesion, but it does not seem something that can be resolved in weeks and the military union should occur in that type of deadline
How the hell can you lose that much with a slightly modified mastodon instance?
The European Union as a whole already spends more on defense than Russia or China, it is just a matter of coordinating spending by unifying efforts
In other news, water is wet
United Kingdom does not want to be part of the EU, and obviously we will not force them, if one day they change their minds they will be welcome but in the meantime the others cannot continue waiting and we must move now, now, without delay
We should tell Ukraine that if it wants to keep fighting, we will put in as much as the US stops putting in, everything else is a kick in the crotch to Europe.
If they had enough vision and created a real common army, we could look at the big players as equals and be a superpower in our own right.
However, I believe that these cowards will not go beyond empty words and will put us on the same level as Latin America in the 50s. Ready to be divided up and impoverished by people with true leadership.