> Look at the BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars and euros that are pouring into weapons. It's a trend, especially since 2001 and especially since the past decad

> Look at the BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars and euros that are pouring into weapons. It's a trend, especially since 2001 and especially since the past decade, that all major countries around the planet are reinforcing their border and military, reinstating various forms of military service, outlawing criticism of the Nation State, appropriating or otherwise securing crucial/strategic resources in former/current colonies... I agree with you it's disastrous. And i'm all in favor of dismantling military institutions worldwide without waiting, but it's hardly a european problem. Fascism is on the rise on every continent (Brasil, France, India, Japan, Russia, China) so framing the problem as a european problem is not helping. Although of course it's important to point out the ethnocentrism at the heart of european discourse: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/72c71a0e-04f6-4337-b9ff-261d8d9f8bb5.png https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/72c71a0e-04f6-4337-b9ff-261d8d... What can help is reviving the internationalist/pacifist movement. A few decades ago when i was a kid we had millions of people marching down the streets against the cold war and against all forms of colonialism, and i do mean against both sides of the conflict (third-worldism). Popular solidarity goes beyond borders as long as we don't let nationalism and its arbitrary borders taint our hearts. And please note that i don't mean "peaceful" when i say pacifism: i'm all for blowing up military installations and Nation States, and reaching world peace and social justice "by any means necessary". We need to dismiss propaganda from corrupt western "democracies" as well as modern autocracies. But that does not mean we shouldn't condemn a neo-fascist State (Russia) for invading its former colony (Ukraine).