The worst-case scenario is now a possible one: European troops fighting off an invasion largely alone
It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.
French four-star General Philippe de Montenon said he’s confident Europe could prevail, even without the US on side.
“The direction of history is a progressive disengagement of the United States from the European continent,” he said.
While you are basically right, consider this as well:
Afaik, most Europeans are for an independent army and build-up and ofcourse people don’t like new taxes.
Far-right and far left movements are indeed a problem. That’s a bit of worldwide phenomenon though. There are some unique problems Europe is facing, which lead to extra fear and worry. Some people then tend to vote for extreme measures and isolationist policies. There are many anti-fascism & anti-disinfo movements and initiatives too. The hybrid propaganda wars and recent agressions have caused renewed coldwar fears with some.
They are working on that, but it takes time though to rebuild the old military complex, but they are getting there. Also, European Union is just a project, most thing need to be decided by unanimous vote, that’s 27 votes. Secondly, earlier initiatives to gain some military autonomy, were torpedoed by USA, which caused extra inertia.
This is what I’m saying! Y’all need a tighter federal system, fast. And of course learn from the mistakes of the US/Russia.
And (with all due respect) you don’t get what I’m saying.
You don’t need, nor have time for a military complex! Europe has a lot, can supplement it with frugal efforts (like making drones), and buy the rest.
And the countermeasures aren’t enough. All the ‘initiatives’ in the world aren’t going to stop folks getting brainwashed on Facebook, Twitter or or whatever.
…What you need is urgency and unity. European countries are going to have to pay more taxes, and sign up for systems they do not like, and see the psycological threat facing their population, or its all going to hell.
Nope… not getting your message bro. EU is hitting defense spending €570 B in 2025, and €624 B or more in 2026. We need to work on more atack planes to have a better balance.
Together we have like a minimum of 500 nuclear warheads. For now it’s sufficient to offer some deterrenve to most enemies, but we are building more. We have new inter-member alliances popping on a regular bases, in the style of coalition of the willing. There is one in the north too.
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Picking up on one thing here; Genuine question:
Where do you see problems with the far _left_?
The right is in all our faces everywhere, but the left?
There are some traditional communist & socialists pro-Ruz parties ( GUE/NGL). See this older post
" TLDR: Pro-Kremlin sentiment in the chamber is mostly found at its political fringes. On one end sit members of The Left, the far-left group, and on the other, the newly formed far-right alliances — PfE and ESN.
The far left according to wiki.