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[โ€“] gon@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yup yup... A little scary though...

[โ€“] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well it's either that or we'll end up being steamrolled by Russia, China or the US

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Being able to defend your territory does not make you a "superpower" being able to step on other peoples territory does. The EU needs to build up good defensive capabilities, but it should refrain from offensive capabilities to project power like the US or Russia. Instead we need to focus on improving diplomatic ties with Africa, South America and non-China Asia to become the forerunners of a new Third World.

[โ€“] OrloNorppa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That is the reason why I gotta just trust that the people running the country and EU know what they are doing.

I am in Finland and I really do trust we are doing what we need to, our defense forces and government is very shush shush regarding defense, every government and defense outlet was adamant that we weren't joining NATO until the foreign minister and president announced the move. At least in a country of 5 million we are really thinking of each other here. Let's just hope that is the case for the rest of the EU and the overall union.

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[โ€“] gon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trust? I don't trust any politician... Here in Portugal we're almost certainly going for early elections because the government is gonna fail a confidence vote...

[โ€“] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Having lived over 2 decades in a couple of countries in Europe (including Portugal, were I hail from), lets just say that Portugal is quite a lot more corrupt than average, sort of half-way between Western Europe and Latin America.

Mind you, that it's a scandal this kind of funny business (the family of the PM buying almost a million euros of realestate in cash using money undeclared to the political transparency authority) and that the Government is likely to fall for it, is actually a step forward from the Past - in the old days there wasn't even the obligation for sitting Government politicians and Parliament members to declare their incomes and the sources of it in an open way, so this would have never have come to light.

So this is an actual positive and reflects an improvement in Portugal (though painfully slow as it's fought every step by the two main parties who pretty much only ever vote together when it's to stop anti-corruption measures).