• @Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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    02 months ago

    We failed to make Russia bend the knee with soft power.

    Rearming Europe, after decades of trying without, is necessary because there’s an ongoing war in Europe.

    We overestimated our influence without an army, and that’s even with the army of turkey and USA on our side in case we’d get attacked.

    Violence is necessary, just unwanted. If someone hits my wife then I’m not going to use my words to solve the situation.

    It’s complicated because if you give everyone a gun, then there’s a shooting happening every day. Give nobody a gun, then we don’t know how to defend our countries.

    Pros and cons to be outweighed, depending on the larger context.

      • @Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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        12 months ago

        Obama/Biden were good for Europe. Trump is bad.

        If the next president is good for europe, then so be it.

        But the volatility shows that changes must be made. More autonomy, the stability of china is actually looking quite good.

        But china shows different issues. That of freedom of expression.

        So, we’ll need to rearm, have a bit more hard power. We can’t be the only ones trying without.

        Get rid of your military might and then we can do the same. But nah, that’s not going to happen.