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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

It will never be. It cannot be.

We all know how slow a democracy is. It takes a major event or crisis to stir up politicians to act in a timely manner and with vigor.

Now imagine the absolute dumpster fire that would need to burn to get 27 democracies to get their shit together. I doubt anything short of a full-scale invasion of EU territory by Russia would do.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They let themselves be subservient to the Americans cause they didn't trust each other (understandable given the shared history of the continent).

Now that the USA has flipped the switch so dramatically given Trump is unpredictable and incompetent, I hope the Europeans realise they can trust each other more than their far away who doesn't give 2 shits about them. I'm optimistic but whilst they can do stuff for Ukraine, I'm not sure how they will go about EU reform (if they can even get it done given Orban exists). They need to be bold and I'm not sure they will all be on the same page for that

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[โ€“] [email protected] 106 points 2 months ago (5 children)

One could argue it already is - mainly on a soft power level. Now that Ursula has chopped the chains off the war chest we can get back the hard power as well. I feel very good about this, it's rare to feel optimistic about the way your country and union is going...

[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yup yup... A little scary though...

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

That is the reason why I gotta just trust that the people running the country and EU know what they are doing.

I am in Finland and I really do trust we are doing what we need to, our defense forces and government is very shush shush regarding defense, every government and defense outlet was adamant that we weren't joining NATO until the foreign minister and president announced the move. At least in a country of 5 million we are really thinking of each other here. Let's just hope that is the case for the rest of the EU and the overall union.

Slava Ukraini

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Well it's either that or we'll end up being steamrolled by Russia, China or the US

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

stares in jealous American

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