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> What we need is a small, well trained and equipped, EU army and a disbanding of the national armies. It makes no sense that each EU member has their own army.
by nordsieck 7y ago
> What we need is a small, well trained and equipped, EU army and a disbanding of the national armies. It makes no sense that each EU member has their own army.
I understand why someone who wants to create a "united states of europe" would want that, but why would the member countries ever agree to that?
- dboreham 7y agoMoney? It'd cost less than 1 army each.
- coldtea 7y agoIt also gives them none of their sovereignty a national army does. In fact it lets 27 others co-decide on their economy, social policy, foreign policy, and so on, with some top dogs like Germany getting undue influence, the very top dogs individual countries fought hard to push back in two worlds wars...
- bobthepanda 7y agoThe alternative is Britain and France asking for American help in Libya because they can’t actually even do the things they want to do. Regardless of the utility or desirability of action in Libya.
- coldtea 7y agoWell, Britain and France have no reason being in Libya, besides plundering resources, and turning a stable, albeit autocratic regime, into a hell-hole of instability, civil war, and fundamentalism...