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A Boring Dystopia
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Defend the continent from who? The teetering regime that has spent the past 5 years drawing the poorest country on the continent to a stalemate?
And the same regime definetly has the power to rule territory in which it's despised by the majority of the population. /s
War is very expensive though. It makes sense to spend fraction of that on a deterrent and that's one thing EU does really well is to hedge all investments for overall stability. This is more of the same.
Interestingly it's always the welfare state that has to be sacrificed, that is too expensive etc. The foundation of our democracy IMO.
But at least the americans think about us and want to help us! /s
Defend the continent from people whose countries are becoming unlivable, and from missing out on all the resources we might want to procure.
I'm afraid we've really entered into a new era of increasing aggression and warfare.
Well, kinda, yeah. The only reason that has been a stalemate is that Europe mustered a bunch of support for Ukraine, at great expense. They’ve needed to gather and regather the will to spend money on this throughout, if you’ve been paying attention you’ve seen it.
Now I totally object to someone saying they need to dismantle their social programs to dump all that money into warfare, but neither should we say there is no threat at all.
What exactly will happen if there are suddenly "separatists" in Narva?
There's 2.200 soldiers in Tapa which I assume would be deployed immediately.
There's a total of 27.000 soldiers deployed as part of the Enhanced Forward Presence NATO deference. So they need a little more than just "separatists"