The ironic thing is that I think the only realistic way to get an European army on a reasonable time scale would be pretty much the worst case scenario: A full conventional war with Russia without US support, which would literally force European countries to integrate their militaries beyond what we currently do in NATO.
Damn, you’d think weed dealers would be more chill, lol.
lemmus.org was online the entire time.
But I’d rather not contribute too much to that economy
Why not?
Oh no, not an arms race against … North Korea!
I guess it could, but I’d say it’s rather unlikely.
Still, I’d rather have a military than can stand up to Russia should things escalate instead of not having one on the off-chance democracy collapses.
I guess I just wouldn’t call it insurance as it barley mitigates the impacts of a potential blockade. It’s more like their backup lifeline should shit hit the fan.
That’s a bit of a stretch. I’m sure Russia could supply them with oil, but you can’t just shift China’s sea trade to land like that. So a blockade would still have a massive impact. Not a very good insurance.
How is Russia an insurance against that?
It was more of a mosque until very recently, so not really.
1st class train tickets. More comfortable, more space and no seat neighbour is way worth it on longer journeys.
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So you want to be deluded?