France and Germany can’t even agree on developing a joint fighter aircraft. Yet Sanchez thinks European countries will agree to hand over control of their ground forces to a joint command?
I will have some of what he is smoking.
Donnermeat_and_chips on
Are the Spanish going to spend any money contributing to this project or are they just expecting another free ride from countries that have actually bothered to invest meaningfully in their armed forces
gadarnol on
Common same forces. Navy also.
Happy-Curve-9343 on
He needs another free ride. The rebirth of Al Andalus has already started and Pedrito is terrified. No more Maduro, Cuba, Iran
…going to get kicked out of NATO and desperately trying to be bbf w China. The EU should kick them out too. Spanish ppl are cool generally but their current leaders are spineless leeches and will get Spain back to 1950’s poverty levels.
Stabile_Feldmaus on
o7
Bluestreak2005 on
At a minimum it seems like there should be at 2-3 standard set across the whole continent not the 17 it is now. then you can get to 1 single army in the future.
Smitje on
Bud.. in 2016 they said they wanted to be more reliant on themselves and see what happened since..?
bobdammi on
Would cut costs massively by standardization and reduction of soldiers while also boost unity with other members.
And it would also make it easier to develop new systems when the entire military is one body instead of multiple ones.
TinyAd1126 on
Not needed here in Finland, but the core idea of the EU is that it is a spiritual project of Catholic Southern Europe, so they are going to form an army again, naturally.
HomieMassager on
Pedro, how much money and equipment will you contribute?
Ehhh we are more interested in providing substantial moral support!
Inevitable-Push-8061 on
The Turkish army should definitely be included in a common European army, as it is the second largest army in NATO.
Tman11S on
Agreed. The sole purpose of it would be to defend the EU though, no helping trump in his lunacy or anything like that.
FlyHopeful187 on
Lets do this!!
noqdy on
The number of MAGA bots commenting on this news is curious.
hikingmaterial on
sanchez says this, because he doesnt want to spend money on spains own army. it is always thoes countries without strong armies pushing this.
sneakyjedi123 on
Easy for Spain to say when you don’t invest in your own military and don’t support Ukraine. Lets the rest pay for their own security and interests.
mabiturm on
Allright, will spain pay its 3.5% of gdp for an EU army?
Deep_Gazelle_1879 on
Yea
DiMezenburg on
guy who refuses to boost military spending while in NATO wants europe to be more military focused
Key_Conference8755 on
that’s a very good ideea, I hope eu leaders get real and put this in practice.
Saarfall on
Coming from Spain, is this just another way to say “we won’t pay shit for our defense, so let’s have someone else pay for it” ?
The-Nihilist-Marmot on
I speak German to my tank, Italian to my frigate, French to my ICBMs, Swedish to my airplanes, and Finnish to my artillery.
mmatasc on
EU army talk is completely nonsensical unless the EU is federalized.
This is especially apparent with the issue of military procurement and budgets.
IamHumanAndINeed on
No, this idea of EU army is dead. EU countries can barely manage their own, how do you think if 27 start to decide …
More cooperation outside of NATO for sure.
amy-schumer-tampon on
The EU should have its own NATO, having a single army for so many countries with different languages would be logistically impossible
MineToDine on
Militarily the EU should first and foremost build out a common command structure with a few sub structures that could act more independently in an operational sense. One central org for procurement and contracting purposes that standardizes common use equipment (drones, fighters, software, intelligence and recon, comms, etc.) would be amazing. The expertese is already there to get this done it’s just that at this moment in time it’s all scattered and highly dependent on NATO (i.e. USA) command structures.
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Paul Murphy and Co will be screeching
Commanded by who?
France and Germany can’t even agree on developing a joint fighter aircraft. Yet Sanchez thinks European countries will agree to hand over control of their ground forces to a joint command?
I will have some of what he is smoking.
Are the Spanish going to spend any money contributing to this project or are they just expecting another free ride from countries that have actually bothered to invest meaningfully in their armed forces
Common same forces. Navy also.
He needs another free ride. The rebirth of Al Andalus has already started and Pedrito is terrified. No more Maduro, Cuba, Iran
…going to get kicked out of NATO and desperately trying to be bbf w China. The EU should kick them out too. Spanish ppl are cool generally but their current leaders are spineless leeches and will get Spain back to 1950’s poverty levels.
o7
At a minimum it seems like there should be at 2-3 standard set across the whole continent not the 17 it is now. then you can get to 1 single army in the future.
Bud.. in 2016 they said they wanted to be more reliant on themselves and see what happened since..?
Would cut costs massively by standardization and reduction of soldiers while also boost unity with other members.
And it would also make it easier to develop new systems when the entire military is one body instead of multiple ones.
Not needed here in Finland, but the core idea of the EU is that it is a spiritual project of Catholic Southern Europe, so they are going to form an army again, naturally.
Pedro, how much money and equipment will you contribute?
Ehhh we are more interested in providing substantial moral support!
The Turkish army should definitely be included in a common European army, as it is the second largest army in NATO.
Agreed. The sole purpose of it would be to defend the EU though, no helping trump in his lunacy or anything like that.
Lets do this!!
The number of MAGA bots commenting on this news is curious.
sanchez says this, because he doesnt want to spend money on spains own army. it is always thoes countries without strong armies pushing this.
Easy for Spain to say when you don’t invest in your own military and don’t support Ukraine. Lets the rest pay for their own security and interests.
Allright, will spain pay its 3.5% of gdp for an EU army?
Yea
guy who refuses to boost military spending while in NATO wants europe to be more military focused
that’s a very good ideea, I hope eu leaders get real and put this in practice.
Coming from Spain, is this just another way to say “we won’t pay shit for our defense, so let’s have someone else pay for it” ?
I speak German to my tank, Italian to my frigate, French to my ICBMs, Swedish to my airplanes, and Finnish to my artillery.
EU army talk is completely nonsensical unless the EU is federalized.
This is especially apparent with the issue of military procurement and budgets.
No, this idea of EU army is dead. EU countries can barely manage their own, how do you think if 27 start to decide …
More cooperation outside of NATO for sure.
The EU should have its own NATO, having a single army for so many countries with different languages would be logistically impossible
Militarily the EU should first and foremost build out a common command structure with a few sub structures that could act more independently in an operational sense. One central org for procurement and contracting purposes that standardizes common use equipment (drones, fighters, software, intelligence and recon, comms, etc.) would be amazing. The expertese is already there to get this done it’s just that at this moment in time it’s all scattered and highly dependent on NATO (i.e. USA) command structures.