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It is clear that in Europe we need to increase the military budget and establish a common army. After that, it would also be fair to free ourselves from American bases on European soil.


I may be wrong, but I think a cross-EU military alliance is a good, and an EU army at the current time is a bad idea, and the reason I think it is a bad idea is because the EU is an economic union, not yet a political union, and so it way well yet fail, and if it fails, an army based on the EU will necessarily renationalize (as happened in the Soviet Union - soldiers go back to the country they have a passport for).

The other problem with an EU military is the ongoing and I think enormous Russian funding of political instability.


That would be the advent of the EU a actual state and the death of member countries as sovereign states.

A country like France has its own nukes for a reason and that is to be sovereign and independent.


Exactly. Also stop being a US patsy and cats paw. Maybe even develop friendly relations with our neighbour Russia and buy energy from them etc. How about that for a crazy idea?


Didn’t Germany try that already?


The coming years will be a long war for global dominance between you and China. Since you are letting us go, we have no choice but to find our own position of balance among the remaining power blocs. It seems to me that you are making a clear long-term choice with Trump. Am I wrong?


Cool you go there then

Just don't come crying back when you're taken as prisoner




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