• Honytawk
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    9 months ago

    Why should we? When all individual members have their own army, which can be combined whenever Europe needs it.

    • TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com
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      9 months ago

      At the very least, having a single army should allow for quicker action and less internal coordination, unless we mess up even this with some weird exceptions/conditions.

      On a broader goal? Same reason the EEA was started, to reach a consolidated mass that’s capable of competing at the level of the main superpowers (US and USSR then, US and China now). Having some independence from US’ power projection, not having to rely on their war machine would let the EU pursue it’s best interests, not the ones of a foreign, albeit allied, country.

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      9 months ago

      The other way around, what’s the point of keeping separate armies if we don’t intend to fight each other?

      The Netherlands have already integrated their tank batallions into Germanys army