European 🇪🇺
Well I guess having a EU Commissioner for Defense ( #and Space) , suggesting a security council and a minimum 100K defense force, is a good start to start coordinating stuff indeed.
TIL: #This position has only existed for a year. Added info to the post just now.
The UK are great at creating jobs, huh?
Good pun! Another: for a country that dislikes bureaucracy, UK sure has created a lot of it.
NATO does not need to have a war with Russia
This sentence comes across as if there isn’t a current war in Ukraine. And as if Russia hasn’t been in a hybrid warfare for many years already, and latelt they greatly have intensified their efforts.
Putins lapdogs into power.
There are acouple of them yes, including Trump, but your statement is a discredit to all those other European politicians who are fighting this, and a disregard to the “Coalition of the Willing”, comprising ca 35 countries and counting.
He wins without a war
Lastly, I’m pretty sure the contentmakers cq. military analysts are very aware of the rise of Nationalism, also in Europe. But they see also hope, and wants us to be warned about potential dangers, and how we as society of civilians could be more prepared.
No Putler won’t. But might be some of us really would like to give in to the temptation at times, doesn’t it?
Add: a superb quote from the discussion ( iirc, correct me pls!):
“If the Ruzzians ever invaded Estonia, even the trees will shoot back” .
Sounds fair enough.
Agreed. And they must be some pretty serious negotiations too, since they apparently include clauses to minimize the risk of repeating “past mistakes”.
extremely informative discussion.
I must agree with you on this one. And quite relevant to these times.
£ 15 B (all-in ) is a lot of money to renovate Westminster Palace, ca 112,476 m2.
For comparison the Binnenhof in The Hague, The Netherlands is more or less similar, but is a bit smaller at ca. 90.000 m² .
The renovations started at € 500 M, then later 700 M, and now they are at 2,7 B .
I’m not sure if this pricetag includes building the Secondary temporary accommodation, and all extra costs. I think not. Still, despite many obstacles and approx 6 times the intended budget, no way near the £ 15 B for London.
Trashy US undersecretary, on trashy Xitter, showing a trashy newspaper, about " white trash". Really?^^
Overall, Trump’s policies reveal how politically isolated Central and Southeastern Europe’s nationalist and populist rulers actually are
I hope this will be a wake-up moment for the idiot who still support their like-minded facsist-nationalist autocratic parties ( AFD, etc). Just like the Brexit was.(#spell)
Like you said you said with a 6 to 3 majority in the Supreme Courts, thats a majority, which gives Trump lots of power"
“With its six conservative members in the majority and its three liberals dissenting, the court on Friday curbed the ability of judges to impede his policies nationwide, resetting the power balance between the federal judiciary and presidents.”
Your supreme court, and most of your law enforcement have been bought by your Pedo President. He’s been getting away with it all his whole life, why will this be any different, you reckon?
I don’t think anymore that " releasing the files" is still relevant at this point. He will only stop if he’s forced to. The normal checks and balances are not really working anymore.
snatch this guy and throw him in the clink
Wouldn’t that be nice at this point? I think sooner there will be an old fashioned coup d’etat in the US. He’s been making some serious enemies.
Yes, let’s hope it works as intended.
It never occurred to me to interpret it that way. So to me, third countries would be Japan, South Korea that are participating in Safe. But, probably they could procure from the US under special conditions. I’m not sure. In this light, I get your point better. But the whole project’s aim is to decouple afaik.
Maybe first read what it is… please.
Yes , Göbbels did use the TV- then a new tech- as a medium for propaganda. Disinfo is of all ages btw. Propaganda in Europe was after WW II a long time (political) taboo, but USA embraced it.
Afaik fhe issue for UK was the high entree fee. Also SAFE is part of " warmer EU ties", ilke the Erasmus project, and as such it maybe considered as sort of “package deal”. So, could be they are not YET onboard, but since Starmer put the EU common market on the agenda recently, it might be renegotiated later this year.
UK has joined, thought they pulled out?
#E they did pull out in November
Good. Together strong 🇪🇺 &🇨🇦.
If they are stationed here for some times, could be they have an EU partner , like it here, and they might prefer and want to stay. At least they’ll get payed in time and we’d have some extra personnel. They’ll need to swear a new allegiance though.