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Honestly… what are y'all talking about in these comments?
I’m seeing calls for massive build up, when your voters are shooting down even the tiniest tax and changes hikes to fund them. You can’t even agree to use frozen Russian assets.
I’m seeing a lot of ‘Euro pride’ when isolationist far right parties are making big gains, every election, across Europe.
Meanwhile, a single country (with sufficient weapons supplying) is holding off all of Russia, and Russia's allies, yet Russia is dangerously strained. You guys have plenty of capability, and plenty more to buy from the US, all locked behind inter-country squabbling.
For heaven's sake, take us Americans as a warning. Take care of your backyard dysfunction, fast.
Cut off big tech, nip blooming facism in the bud instead of acting like it’s not right around the corner.
Otherwise helping Ukraine is going to end up about as well our military excursions have, and canon more Trumpists into power faster than you can blink.
While you are basically right, consider this as well:
Afaik, most Europeans are for an independent army and build-up and ofcourse people don't like new taxes.
Far-right and far left movements are indeed a problem. That's a bit of worldwide phenomenon though. There are some unique problems Europe is facing, which lead to extra fear and worry. Some people then tend to vote for extreme measures and isolationist policies. There are many anti-fascism & anti-disinfo movements and initiatives too. The hybrid propaganda wars and recent agressions have caused renewed coldwar fears with some.
They are working on that, but it takes time though to rebuild the old military complex, but they are getting there. Also, European Union is just a project, most thing need to be decided by unanimous vote, that's 27 votes. Secondly, earlier initiatives to gain some military autonomy, were torpedoed by USA, which caused extra inertia.
This is what I'm saying! Y'all need a tighter federal system, fast. And of course learn from the mistakes of the US/Russia.
And (with all due respect) you don't get what I'm saying.
You don't need, nor have time for a military complex! Europe has a lot, can supplement it with frugal efforts (like making drones), and buy the rest.
And the countermeasures aren't enough. All the 'initiatives' in the world aren't going to stop folks getting brainwashed on Facebook, Twitter or or whatever.
...What you need is urgency and unity. European countries are going to have to pay more taxes, and sign up for systems they do not like, and see the psycological threat facing their population, or its all going to hell.
Nope.. not getting your message bro. EU is hitting defense spending €570 B in 2025, and €624 B or more in 2026. We need to work on more atack planes to have a better balance.
Together we have like a minimum of 500 nuclear warheads. For now it's sufficient to offer some deterrence to most enemies, but we are building more. We have new inter-member alliances popping up on a regular bases, in the style of coalition of the willing. There is one in the north too. The EU has also been establishing new bilateral defense pacts with other allied countries like with U.K., Canada & Japan.
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@HowRu68
Picking up on one thing here; Genuine question:
Where do you see problems with the far _left_?
The right is in all our faces everywhere, but the left?
There are some traditional communist & socialists pro-Ruz parties ( GUE/NGL). See this older post
" TLDR: Pro-Kremlin sentiment in the chamber is mostly found at its political fringes. On one end sit members of The Left, the far-left group, and on the other, the newly formed far-right alliances — PfE and ESN.
The far left according to wiki.