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While I would love to see an EU army, I don’t think it’s realistic. Unfortunately most countries are too culturally and ideologically different, and this would never work in the long term. What would happen if an anti-EU party took control of a member country? What if one country objects to the European army being used in a specific operation?
We’ve seen countless times when an EU member has sabotaged the entire union or made specific things more difficult because, in their opinion, it would go against their country’s interests.
We are not the United States of Europe. Many older people do not share a sense of European pride, and sometimes even hate their neighbouring countries.
I mean the EU army does not need to replace national armies initially, the army could grow into it. I think long term it would make defense a lot more efficient and save budget which could be spent on improving the lives of the people or hardening defenses better.
While I would love to see an EU army, I don’t think it’s realistic. Unfortunately most countries are too culturally and ideologically different, and this would never work in the long term. What would happen if an anti-EU party took control of a member country? What if one country objects to the European army being used in a specific operation?
We’ve seen countless times when an EU member has sabotaged the entire union or made specific things more difficult because, in their opinion, it would go against their country’s interests.
We are not the United States of Europe. Many older people do not share a sense of European pride, and sometimes even hate their neighbouring countries.
I mean the EU army does not need to replace national armies initially, the army could grow into it. I think long term it would make defense a lot more efficient and save budget which could be spent on improving the lives of the people or hardening defenses better.