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Yeah. Remove EU and I'm sure Russia will be happy to take over your little countries. Individually European countries are pretty weak. They're only strong as a
by vardump 8y ago
Yeah. Remove EU and I'm sure Russia will be happy to take over your little countries.
Individually European countries are pretty weak. They're only strong as a common entity.
- lbj 8y agoPretty sure NATO would survive the dismantling of some bureaucracy.
- raverbashing 8y agoWill it? Trump is already discussing how to step down Divide and conquer, one of the oldest strategies. Yes, I'm sure "countries can defend themselves alone" yup, right
- msla 8y ago> Pretty sure NATO would survive the dismantling of some bureaucracy. Then that's the next Brexit target, innit? Gin up some "grassroots" support for leaving that Mean Nasty NATO What Is Bad And Mean and just never you mind that the original talking points were translated from the Russian. We know the Russians are working to dismantle everything on the European continent which could counterbalance their ambitions. NATO isn't any more immune than the EU is.
- Ralfp 8y agoNATO is military pact. EU has economic advantages for member states like single market and trade union (so you can't create trade agreement in WTO sense with single EU member).
- kazen44 8y agoAlso, the EU has a common defence clause aswell, so all EU member states are practically under the same defence umberella, even if they aren't into NATO.
- morsma 8y agoWhy on earth would Russia want to take over Denmark?
- lbj 8y agoI think they're after our excess cinnamon
- Spacemolte 8y agoWhy do any country want to invade other countries?
- ahallock 8y agoNot sure why you can't have an alliance among smaller countries without all the regulations. It seems orthogonal to me.
- Matticus_Rex 8y agoThe EU is not the only thing keeping Europe from being deaf and blind, and Russia has much better targets than most of the EU if it was going to take expansion risks. This is needless fearmongering.