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Nato leaders agree not to mention World Cup to Donald Trump to avoid irritating him
(www.theguardian.com)
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Isn't it lovely how headlines are about sports while Europeans are seemingly still committing to the goal of spending five fucking percent of their gdp for their military? Schools, hospitals, universities, railways... all that will suffer for tanks and the headlines are still just about how somebody doesn't mention that ludicrous display last night to some jerk.
They're scared of losing the American security guarantee and this is what it costs them to create a comparable EU guarantee.
While it sucks, Europe has to do it. It's not threatened just by Russia anymore, but by US itself these days
Drumpf is literally every other day threatening to invade Denmark, an EU member for no reason whatsoever. It's quite insane
Also, you never know who Americans could elect next time, or time after that. Maybe someone even more unhinged.
Europe must be able to defend itself
Working towards 5% isn't really that stupid for most European countries as long as Russia is spending as much money as it can on weapons. It will only become a waste of money after the implosion of the Russian oligarchy. I am not in favor of spending that much money of things that kill stuff, but it makes total sense to continue doing that for now.
No, you need to be able to defend against the United States. They are the biggest world threat right now. The leadership is incompetent, but they have an overwhelming advantage in firepower and are very dangerous.
The US in it's current form is definitely a threat to Europe in many ways, but not a military one. Not even in the case of an armed conflict about Greenland. I could see the leadership ordering to, but I can't see the soldiers on the ground shoot at people they've been training and fighting with their entire career. There will be mass defection on the side of the US if they are ordered to shoot (by then former) nato-allies. Unlike Russian 'soldiers', the fear of torture/execution will not motivate them.