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      • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        They could’ve had a slow, dignified decline of their power and status over 50 years or so. Instead they chose to tear it down themselves, in not just stupid but embarrassing ways.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I don’t believe that the US is that stupid. The EU accepts the tariffs to balance the trade deficit even though digital goods are excluded so that it becomes raw profit for the US, the EU can’t tax the internet giants and the EU allows data storage in the US, knowing that the US is spying on it. We are starting internet user surveillance, using US software.

      There should be more than the military split if the US is so unreliable.

      However, the EU only has increased the defence spending but otherwise stays on the side of the US.

      Then there is one big strategic goal for the US, to contain China.

      If the EU is going to help the US with that goal then the EU will need all the weapons they can get and the EU needs a good justification.

      So can we be sure that it is indeed a self-own and not a new form of deception?

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    I mean… One single country being missing from a defensive pact shouldn’t cripple the defensive pact. So that’s how it always should have been.

    • Kjell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      You are correct, but it is a challenge to get the European countries to cooperate. I’m glad that they have filled the gaps this quickly.

      I’m not sure about other countries but Sweden has been involved in several big weapon deals with other European countries lately, buying frigates from France and selling airplanes to Ukraine and submarines to Poland.