L’Europa sta aumentando significativamente la sua spesa per la difesa. Il continente può diventare una superpotenza militare? L’esperto della sicurezza europea pensa che il passaggio dell’Europa verso una “era di riarmo” sarà nel suo interesse a lungo termine.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/25/european-defense-spending-superpower-russia-ukraine-war/
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I don’t like it, but we got to keep the crazies out
I am all for rearmament, but we should not lose sight of our goals. We are not rearming for rearmament’s sake – we should get enough to deter and – if necessary – resoundingly beat Russia, and that’s it. No more, no less.
Some people here are pretending that massive rearmament in line with Trump’s retarded 3.5 + 1.5% target is necessary *and* an economic boon, but that’s not the case. While rearmament does have some economic benefits, per € or $ spent it’s one of the worst investments a government can make from a purely economic standpoint. It’s an economic consensus that the return on investment is much better when funding infrastructure, healthcare, education etc., so we should stop pretending that pumping hundreds of billions into European defence companies is somehow going to result in a great economic boost. And that’s why we should limit military spending to what’s necessary and not aim for ever higher ‘% of GDP’ targets.
i think what Europe is missing the most is not military equipment, but willing soldiers.
most just dont want to become soldiers. most feel like its not worth serving for their country.
It all depends on how. If the plan is just buying american weapons even long-term without investing massively in our industries then nothing will change. Europe more than anything needs to be competitive, right now we don’t compete in key sectors like AI and core infrastructures, all social media, operative systems, researching systems and credit card systems we use are americans. The fact that bothers me is that we are not even trying, we have a very blind vision of our industries, still trying to save dying group like Stellantis here in Italy, with the money of the tax payers. We are champion of regulation but we fail miserably with innovation, maybe i am pessimistic but i see a really dark future ahead, we need some kind of shock to wake europe and europeans.
Well undoubtedly it’ll be in Europe’s (it speaks of both the EU and NATO countries so let’s take this to be a continent wide appraisal) long term interest. Whether that means the continent can become a military superpower I’d say is incredibly unlikely unless a radical shift in interoperability occurs alongside procurement. It’s rather pie in the sky thinking until then – spending doesn’t guarantee strength, and persistent fragmentation remains.
Where is EU’s Pentagon? Where is EU’s DoD? Furthermore, let’s suppose that there is an EU army tomorrow. Who will give the orders? The Germans, the Dutch, the French, or the brits? No amount of spending taxpayers money and hoarding US weapons will do much to address the deeper structural problems. Here’s an example: Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest military spenders, but does not have a significant military. That is why despite enormous military spending – more than 800$ billion just in the last ten years – back in 2019, when Iran, with significantly lower spending on military as share of GDP, wanted to send a signal to Saudis to stop the Yemen war, they showed they can take all of Saudi oil’s out.
[https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2019/09/26/are-air-defense-systems-ready-to-confront-drone-swarms/](https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2019/09/26/are-air-defense-systems-ready-to-confront-drone-swarms/)
A credible defense is not about how much you spend to procure foreign-made weapons.
No.
Europe can never and will never be a military superpower until it federalizes.
There is no common foreign policy and no common sense of defense.
We are seeing it already, Spain doesent consider defending the citizens of the Baltics as the same as defending its own citizens so it doesent want to spend more
Countries like Hungary are actively working against the EU.
The EU won’t be able to be a military superpower until it is actually a country, once it is a country then obviously it will have the ability to be a military superpower until
It’s the only option all European countries need to be armed to the teeth. Get the contracts signed for the equipment it’s takes years for it to arrive. In that time the governments need to fix the social issues that are causing people to not want to defend what they have.
Most europeans don’t understand how benificial it is to be a big weapon exporter. It creates a lot of investment and job opportunities.
It is also very important for diplomacy. Selling weapons to non european nations gives us a lot of leverage in discussions about other topics with these nations.
Weapon trade is also a very lucrative business, whether we participate or not. The thought that selling weapons is beneath us is what led us to be in such a bad position right now. Time to lose the diapers and put on our big boy pants.
Lol
What experts?
Don’t have to be a military superpower and neither should we. It is enough to be be part of something strong enough, financially and military wise, that it isn’t worth messing with you.