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New EU federation state do you support the creation of it? |
Yes what happens to EU is matter of EU parliament |
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36% |
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No if EU does that UK will leave ECHR and the Solar system |
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5% |
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Don't know and care |
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26% |
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Like Farage I support Putin & Russian federation from Ural to the Atlantic ocean |
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31% |
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Nobby the Bastard wrote: | An EU army wouldn't mean there is more army available in Europe, it will just mean that various units of various countries will be under central control of a organisation called the EU army rather than under the control of their respective countries.
Thats basically the setup that NATO uses and as soon as Article 5 is invokes the 'EU' army will be subsumed under NATO control in exactly the same way as those self same units from various countries would have been subsumed under NATO so an EU army is largely irrelevant where Russia is concerned. |
Exactly my point. One army with centralised command and control and unified gear will be more effective and much stronger then 27 different armies each having different gear like tanks. NATO cannot help making 27 armies better.
Quote: | EU Army Promises Greater Defence Capability for the Same Money.
The defence policy of the EU Member States is highly fragmented and unnecessarily costly. The multitude of different weapon systems and unnecessary parallel structures are creating enormous costs without producing additional benefits that would increase operational capacity. A European army promises greater defence capability for the same money. In large armies, the relation between available soldiers and the total number of armed forces is much better. A European army would help to reap these economies to scale. |
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Would EU members have to increase their defense spending for the EU Army to be setup and run?
How can it be a viable idea when many EU countries who are in NATO are currently spending less than 2% of their GDP on defense?
Who's going to fund it all?
You've said that the EU Army would be in NATO but why would NATO want that? |
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Another major advantage is that an EU army would put an end to the free-rider problem in defence policy. Many EU countries are relying heavily on the defence efforts of larger Member States, neglecting their responsibility to finance their own armed forces. A European army would be financed from the EU budget, taking account of the share of the individual Member States in the overall EU gross national income. This would be a fair financing formula for providing the European public good of defence. With their initiative, Macron and Merkel are on the right path towards creating real added value for the European Union.” |
https://www.zew.de/en/press/latest-press-releases/eu-army-promises-greater-defence-capability-for-the-same-money
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Trump is the best thing that has happened to Europe so far since Brexit and Putin to unite us and make the federation.
Enjoy part one and two of the analysis of why Europe does not need to buy American weapons we have better ones locally says Finnish military:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThNMEwLF7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVaadqx01As
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Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | It’s America’s industrial might that counts. Big country, lots of workers. You can choose to have a “better” tank made locally eventually, or lots of tanks quickly made in the USA.
Just reading your posts is a stretch, I’m not gonna play the videos. |
Fair enough comment on something you have not seen than
My post is little teasing, but seriously doing more arms in Europe is actually in US interest too.
US does not have industrial capability to support large scale war. I read somewhere article the only way to ramp up large war production is actually to get help from Mexico.
Quote: | The US military industrial base: production and readiness concerns
The US military industrial base is not suited for high-intensity conflict against other major powers (see for example Jones, 2023). Much of the US’s own demand for arms in recent decades has been for military operations against relatively small and weaker opponents. This has likely left the US military industrial base ill-equipped for conflict with a peer of similar military strength. For example, in a scenario of conflict over Taiwan, the US would run out of some key munitions in less than a week (Cancian et al, 2023). |
US cannot do what they have done WW2 because there is no industrial might anymore. Everything is bitcoins and most of Teslas are made in China.
If Europe needs war time supplies we cannot depend on supplies from US, because simply they do not have enough for them in case of WW3.
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This raises two immediate consequences. First, Europe will need to increase domestic production of weapons systems, and this is in line with US interests. Second, the EU cannot rely on arms purchases as a negotiating tool with the incoming US administration to obtain a favourable deal on tariffs. US production is insufficient for Europe to meaningfully buy, let alone increase, its weapons purchases. |
Please do not force me to copy paste the whole article here just read it there
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“US cannot do what they have done WW2 because there is no industrial might anymore. Everything is bitcoins and most of Teslas are made in China.
If Europe needs war time supplies we cannot depend on supplies from US, because simply they do not have enough for them in case of WW3.”
They’d quickly ramp up production in wartime like they’ve done before. They still have the know-how even if China now make their tat. In fact they’re perhaps the only country that benefitted economically from WW2 (maybe Canada too) such that the UK’s last debt payment was as late as 2006. We should have let Europe sink.  |
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Val wrote: | Trump is the best thing that has happened to Europe so far since Brexit and Putin to unite us and make the federation.
Enjoy part one and two of the analysis of why Europe does not need to buy American weapons we have better ones locally says Finnish military:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThNMEwLF7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVaadqx01As
Let's make Europe great again!
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