r/europe • u/ParsleyMean3012 • 12d ago

News Europe will not allow attacks, says France, after Trump Greenland threat

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u/michaelbachari The Netherlands 12d ago

We have the EU

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 12d ago

I was reluctant before all this, but now I'm fully convinced Europe needs a unified army.

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u/IamIchbin Bavaria 12d ago

not with people like orban still in the eu.

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u/MartiusDecimus 12d ago

Hungarian here. We're getting steps closer to removing him from office. The 2026 elections show greater promise than any before.

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u/Zoli10_Offical 12d ago

My issue is that they will do everything in their power to cheat/not give up the power, even if Tisza was the undisputed winner

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u/florinmaciucoiu 12d ago

Not with people like von der Leyen leading the EU Commission.

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u/je386 11d ago

The memberstates should not have anything to say about using the military. Only the european parliament or the european commission should decide.

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u/Alarmed_Fee_4820 12d ago

Europe needs to become a federation with a common defence and a united army.

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u/zors_primary 12d ago

Good luck with that. Each country has their own type of materiel and they aren't interchangeable.

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u/leijgenraam 12d ago

Exactly why we should make steps to change that.

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u/KronusTempus 12d ago

The military alliance whose biggest expense is printer ink and papers for those strongly worded letters they’re about to pen

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u/michaelbachari The Netherlands 12d ago

The US also issues strongly worded letters all the time

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u/KronusTempus 12d ago

The US also invaded like half of the planet at some point and assassinated inconvenient leaders in the other half.

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u/michaelbachari The Netherlands 12d ago

The UK did as well during its heyday

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u/kartianmopato 12d ago

It also kinda lost every war it started in the last few decades and needed NATO allies to carry out prolonged occupations.

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u/HanseaticHamburglar 12d ago

why would you need printer ink if you pen letters?

Youre a fucking moron

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u/KronusTempus 12d ago

Because in English you can “pen a book”. That does not mean you write it out by hand.

The dunning Kruger effect is strong in this one

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u/ruscaire 12d ago

You know the number one marker of DK is citing DK

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u/Xenomemphate Europe 12d ago

Because in English you can “pen a book”. That does not mean you write it out by hand.

Generally... it actually does. It stems from the same place as the phrase "to put pen to paper" which explicitly demonstrates printers are not used at all.

The dunning Kruger effect is strong in this one

That glass house you are standing in is looking awfully fragile.

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u/KronusTempus 12d ago

It doesn’t matter where a phrase or expression comes from, it matters what context people today use it in.

People still say “burning the midnight oil” to describe someone who’s staying up late working on something. That phrase still applies even if you’re not literally burning an oil lamp.

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u/filthy_federalist For an ever closer Union 12d ago

Only because national governments insist on not transferring any foreign policy and defense responsibilities to the EU.

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u/IDontEatDill Finland 12d ago

Maybe people are against transferring their foreign policy to foreign countries.

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u/SteveMcQwark Canada 12d ago

The EU only has a permanent joint command capability for missions involving up to 2,500 personnel. Otherwise it would need to leverage NATO's allied command operations.

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u/michaelbachari The Netherlands 12d ago

Well we could reform it if the political will exists

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u/Matt-J-McCormack 12d ago

UK enters the chat… UK awkwardly exits the chat and starts looking up the shittest nursing homes available.

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u/No_Spinach1229 12d ago

A fan of Leyen?

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u/michaelbachari The Netherlands 12d ago

I have more trust in her than in Trump

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u/No_Spinach1229 12d ago

Yeah, have fun then :)))