Most Poles support idea of joint EU military, poll shows
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from realitista@lemm.ee to world@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 23:34
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Good. Go ahead.
Always thought this makes a lot of sense. An attack on one EU country is a severe disruption on all other. Before Sweden and Finland joined NATO, would the EU have been able to continue business as usual without joining in? That said I know a lot of people oppose it because they see it as one step closer to becoming a federation and getting rid of the nation states.
There is also the fact that European armies rarely sat idle. If they existed, they were often deployed against each other.
Hopefully the last 75 years of peace has broken that cycle. Most European nations focused on tactical capabilities, over strategic ones, letting America play hammer to their scalpels. If Europe builds an full military then finding the balance between individual and federation armies will be the challenge.
Everything is perfect until russia invades Latvia and France and Germany decide it’s not in their economic interest to deploy the troops.
It would be double illegal for them to do that. If they do that it means both NATO and EU are already dead.