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This is the most important comment I have heard this week — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians […] Europe, if there is something we lack today, it is not economic or demographic power, but the belief that we are truly a global force.”
I think Tusk hits the bullseye here. Those 140 million Russians are already fully occupied by fighting Ukraine, and our leaders act like we are Liechtenstein.
@randahl I think what we are lacking is a sense of unity.
There is still way too much nationalism and protection in the heads of most Europeans and most European politicians.
Especially the far right-idiots fail to understand that we need a strong united Europe not a bunch of little countries fighting each other. Now more than ever.
@truls46 @randahl if Germany is the biggest power in EU and behaves like bully in the sandpit, then there is nothing to talk about unity. The strongest must show one's will to part with others. USA payed a lot to its partners to keep them subordinated. Germany wants the same but wirhout fee. And has no Hollywood, nor coca cola...
@dimpase@mathstodon.xyz@flamenco108 @truls46 @randahl Germany has Constitution with a lot of pacifism built-in (every deployment abroad needs a parlement's approval, etc). The cannot turn around overnight, I suppose one needs to take various not too easy legal hurdles to fix it. IIRC the deployment of a brigade in Lithuania last year was the biggest deployment of Bundeswehr abroad.