Europe preps huge defense package in boost to Ukraine: "Never been seen"
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Hofreiter (Greens) put it quite well ... something like ... not our ideals have changed, but the world has changed, brutally so.
Now that's the kind of Greens I like to see.
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Just curious, how can a right wing-green coalition be viable? Don't they clash on many major issues? Or to they succeed at walking the narrow tightrope of compromise?
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But why did Europe wait for America to bail before suddenly pulling a trillion dollars out of their pocket?
If Ukraine was supposed to win Europe should have thought about ponying up that cash a bit sooner.
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Honestly 0.7 US defence budgets is quite an impressive sum of money for the EU to be able to cough up overnight.
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Because as soon as you propose spending billions of dollars on defending another country, people will generally say "but I don't wanna pay more taxes or lose out on any comforts", which causes you to lose your position of power in case of a democracy. It all comes down to selfishness in the end.
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buying the weapons Turkey and Greece have in reserve for each other
Ok, this one amuses me
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Realistically, the only actual solution to this problem in any long term would probably involve stationing nukes, which nobody really wants to do. A combination of not wanting to risk pissing off putin, because everyone thinks that he's an insane trump-level idiot that will engage in mutual self-destruction over ukraine, combined with the post-soviet destruction and hollowing out of the ukranian economy into private enterprise, an economy which wasn't exactly doing hot before. So it's pretty clear that most everyone doesn't actually give a fuck about ukraine or the ukranian people at all. Everyone's just gonna use this as an opportunity, as with every conflict, to pawn off old military hardware, bury the receiving country in a huge amount of IMF bank loan debt, and scale up their own domestic military production while paying off a bunch of private contractors which are, hmm, suspiciously close to the levers of power inside the real government. Weird how that happens. What a noble sacrifice.
I dunno, the wheels turn.
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subsequently, raking the global market (including the US) for weapons that come loose for money
Ultimately they will have to come round to producing their own, no?
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That well may be the case, all we can do is hope that the rest of the world can bulwark against the rise of Fascism long enough to watch it fail in the US - at which point, it should hopefully diminish its allure.
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Errrm, 5 of the worlds largest exporters are European
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so what would you think hamas do with nukes?
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Because of this:
Every single European country with a shared border with Russia has mandatory military service (that red exception on the map is Latvia, which also reinstated it in 2024). This is how much Russia is trusted.
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When you examine the US auto manufacturers, they have nothing to offer for the majority of consumers in the EU.
Yeah, they've shot themselves entirely in the foot. Used to be every other car was a Ford Sierra, then later Ford Mondeo... Opel was pretty big, but GM sold them so now it's a Stellantis brand and Stellantis is more French/Italian than American...
Still, there's market for muscle cars and trucks. And Teslas in recent history, but probably no longer.
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The same thing every other country does with nukes.
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Genocide?
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Oh, thanks for the heads up. That's good to know.
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That's true. Much like Brexit in the UK stopped other countries' appetite for their own brexits.
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The Greens in Baden-Württemberg are to the right of the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens aren't a left-wing party as such, they're liberals. Not neolibs but soclibs but liberals nontheless, and the CDU is perfectly capable of getting into coalitions with the SPD which is to the left of that. Well, at least on paper.
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Europe will likely have to spend double the rumored 700 billion to achieve something credible.
So, what you're saying is that this spending package for defense is NonCredible?
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Is that a serious point you're trying to make?
