Singapore selects F-15T over Rafale

[Abraham]

Originally Posted by Skybird

???? Balkans doesn't make you rethink that statement? Or the EU wanting to share borders with the Middle East in the forseeable future (Turkey entrance)?

We agree again fully!

Originally Posted by Skybird

Oil becomes short, pipeleines become priority targets for Europe is depending on them, they lead thorugh Easteuropean countries that are within range of civil unrest and violance that may emerge from countries that once belonged to the southern provinces of the USSR. If these pipelines get threatened by whatever a faction and to too much effect, then europe could be drawn into military conflicts sooner than people can imagine.

If the West doesn't succeed in creating peace or at least less tension in the Middle East we might be extremely dependable upon Russian oil and gas one day. And into competition with China for that.
Nice prospect...?

Originally Posted by Skybird

And the problems on the Balkans remain. then there is russia itself. Belarus. Cyprus. Greece - Macedonia - Turkey. Northafrica, the pressure of migration patterns, and spreading of orthodox Islam. Poor nations may swtich over to desparate means.

We agree again fully!

Sky & I wouldn't take peace in Europe as granted - only as more likely than a major military conflict.
Currently.