Most Poles in favor of joint EU military
tvpworld.com
Support for the idea varied depending on the survey takers’ political leanings.
  • riodoro1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 hours ago

    Everything is perfect until russia invades Latvia and France and Germany decide it’s not in their economic interest to deploy the troops.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 minutes ago

      It would be double illegal for them to do that. If they do that it means both NATO and EU are already dead.

  • aleq@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Always thought this makes a lot of sense. An attack on one EU country is a severe disruption on all other. Before Sweden and Finland joined NATO, would the EU have been able to continue business as usual without joining in? That said I know a lot of people oppose it because they see it as one step closer to becoming a federation and getting rid of the nation states.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      There is also the fact that European armies rarely sat idle. If they existed, they were often deployed against each other.

      Hopefully the last 75 years of peace has broken that cycle. Most European nations focused on tactical capabilities, over strategic ones, letting America play hammer to their scalpels. If Europe builds an full military then finding the balance between individual and federation armies will be the challenge.