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Originally Posted by Catfish
What about a neutral and nuclear-armed Europe.
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A military (wannabe) power that has only the nuclear club to strike back with in case of even smaller military provocations and incursions, is noncredible. Also, nuclear weapons that are under a 2-dozen-nations command, are somethign that never will wortk becasue even inc as eof war there will never be unity about using them. Thus, any deterrence from them is uncredible again. You thus would need to have every nation having its own nuclear aresenal. Mind you, France last year refuted - strongly - a German philosophizing about turning French nukes under multi-national command.
A one-nation-EU that the EU pushes for and wants to be, I strongly refute, as is known by now. It would multiply the scaling of internal problems, corruption and misadminsitration by factors. The reach of - all - politicians must be cut and limited, not widened and increased.
It comes down to this: Why not having NATO states meeting their obligations in contributions to NATO, and to have them realising more conventional military self defence capabilities? Money gets wasted everywhere these days, it gets thrown out of the windows to bribe once own voter clients, and for illusory megalomanica policies of various kinds. But for defence and security and independency - there always is not enough...? Especially the Germans have to ask themselves what theiur freedom, wealth and - already corrupted energy - independence is worth to them.
Instead the Germans seem to not even understand why they should even want to be capable to defend themselves. Thats why I think especially the Germans are a hopeless case.
There is no easy shortcut. Europeans must regain enormous additional conventional military strength, else they can say Sayonara to global relevance and being taken serious on the world stage. It will not happen, And that is why neither Russia nor China nor the Us take Europe serious anymore. They have no reason to do so. Dogs cannot balk and bite at the same time. And the EU balks louder than all others. And with an "ally" like Germany, European nations do not need an enemy anymore, I slowly start to think in light of recent weeks.
British transports with military aid for the Ukraine even had to fly around German airspace. Maybe we should ask Moscow for memberhsip in the Russian union. Russia meets German mentality much more than the Anglosaxon culure and values anyway.