A credible European deterrent – one that could prevent, for instance, a rapid Russian incursion in the Baltics – would need a minimum of 1,400 tanks, 2,000 infantry fighting vehicles, and 700 artillery pieces. This is more combat power than currently exists in the combined French, German, Italian, and British land forces.
Yeah, this fearmongering is exactly the reason I don’t really follow any mainstream media outlets, and absolutely none from my country of residence. It’s always the same. Also yeah, lemmy.world is quite a bit too right-leaning for my tastes, so I rarely frequent it. For me it’s closing on the feeling I get when I visit reddit: disgust. Like stepping into a steaming pile of pig shit. And don’t get me wrong, I ain’t saying everyone should just roll over and die when the tanks come a-rolling, were they Russian or American.
What I’m saying is that the rich should be eaten or else killed with no due process, their capital seized with no recompence, every politican killed and burned in a great big pile, all means of production seized by the workers, and a new world order put up by the workers which should adhere to communistic and marxist-leninist principles.
And uh, the first “we” was in reference to all European nations putting money that could and should be used for literally anything else into militaries. The second was in reference to the EU as I live in a country in said union.
@narr1@lemmy.ml Cool 👍🏼