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    La storia non aspetterà l’unanimità dell’Europa: un’Unione europea della difesa riguarda credibilità, deterrenza e capacità di agire


    La storia non aspetterà l’unanimità dell’Europa: un’Unione europea della difesa riguarda credibilità, deterrenza e capacità di agire

    https://timesofmalta.com/article/history-wait-europe-unanimity.1122426

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    2. IceKey7990 on

      We needed removal of unanimity in 2014.

      Now we need institutional figures that can act decisively and be help publicly accountable.

      So we’ re now 2 steps behind.

    3. goldstarflag on

      *What we are seeing is a system doing exactly what it was designed to do. Unanimity guarantees the lowest common denominator.*

      The concept of unanimity is obsolete. We need a more federal Europe. A federation consists of many nations and ethnicities. Like India and China. Local competences must go down to the regions but defense, security and trade policy should become full EU competences.

    4. Entire-Scallion-4723 on

      People just should watch Ukraine war footage, and understand that if they won’t do something faster- their families would be doing the same, as main characters in lead.

    5. Vegetable-War-4199 on

      The rest of Europe should use the money they send to NATO, to Germany, France, and the UK to provide the defence. They would well together

    6. Iflysims on

      Europes population: 700 million
      US population: 350 million

      Yea it’s time for Europe to step up, it’s embarrassing many can’t even get to 2% NATO minimums let alone 5% where it should be.

    8. EasterEggArt on

      While I agree wit the article, Europe is still too fractured to be anything unified much less quickly unified. Add to that that we have staggering generational issues that had been pushed / kicked down the road onto other generations, we are now in the “fuck around and find out” or “time to pay the piper” age.

      France has had decades of American Boomer style retirement and funding issues, while Germany kept focusing on their biggest industries for too long instead of diversifying. Same with all other major players such as Spain, Italy, and even Greece.

      Add uncontrolled immigration that has allowed a select few cause massive trouble and thus overshadow all immigrants, and we have as many internal problems as we have external problems. In a perfect scenario we should have a unified front against Russia and US – Greenland problems. But while the western nations can send troops to Greenland, Poland and the eastern states must have their eye on the Russian issue more so than Greenland.

      Us constantly pointing fingers as “single issue voters” is also not helping. We must accept that there are a myriad of problems that all need to be addressed “somehow and right now”.

      We are doing the best we can with the bad hand we were given by our predecessors that we did in fact vote into office.

    9. VigorousElk on

      Look, if Trump tries to cease Greenland (which is not a move that has either popular or establishment support in the US, even in conservative circles, it’s his little pet project) it’s going to happen in the next couple of years. Any successor (even Vance) knows it’s stupid and won’t go ahead with it.

      If Europe wants to dissuade him from doing that, it needs to happen in the next weeks to months, way quicker than a European defence union (beyond the existing EU mechanisms) could be achieved even at the quickest pace.

      Individual European countries need to deploy assets (naval, aerial, ground) now and keep them on rotation for the next years, plus we need an active intelligence focus on any suspicious US military activity in Greenland itself (Pituffik) and in possible staging grounds.

      We cannot defend Greenland against a determined US invasion, but we can make the whole affair so politically costly that even Trump realised it’s not worth it.

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