Dutch Minister Jetten proposes a European defense Ministry and to establish a European pillar within NATO that “can operate independently if needed.” [..] “We Europeans spend three times more than the Russians and yet are not capable to defend ourselves. This is an insult to taxpayers.”
Dutch Minister Jetten proposes a European defense Ministry and to establish a European pillar within NATO that “can operate independently if needed.” [..] “We Europeans spend three times more than the Russians and yet are not capable to defend ourselves. This is an insult to taxpayers.”
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by PjeterPannos
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Finally. One of the key members to obstruct, France, will hopefully not object any longer, especially now that UK is out on EU. To be honest, most key member states weren’t willing to cooperate. That must change.
This is good, Jetten is still a robot though
A European minister of defense. Surely more bureaucracy will make things be less expensive. /s
He’s a outgoing minster at this moment. Not that I disagree with him, but he’s officially not representing the majority anymore. A right wing government is in the making at the moment , they do not support a collective EU sentiment like this.
“We’re spending too much without getting results, so we need more civil servants”
Just fuck off. Buy equipment, recruit soldiers.
I have always proposed a joint European army but no one is listening to me anyway…
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This is refreshing to hear. Maybe now the ball will start rolling!
The yanks don’t want the EU to have it’s own army. They always opposed the ideea. But then again Trump wants out of NATO. If that thing happens the EU and all it’s members will start building & buying nukes as a hedge and then burry 15% or more of GDP into arming to the teeth.
Costs will do this. Developing a new tank, aircraft, submarine or frigate has become far too expensive for any European nation. Soon the Netherlands will need a new type of submarine, they won’t develop it themselves. And tanks are back on the table, developing one is again too expensive for a single European nation. And you can be sure of a crazy development in drone technology, which the EU does not want to be owned by the USA only.
Despite many reservations about the EU amongst its citizens, further cooperation is the only way.
Did he bother to account for vastly different prices / standard of living, or did he just divide two numbers and got 3 as a result?
This is a true snake, a 100% wannabeee with ZERO credibility
We don’t need that much if you look at ukrain and the new fact of war that if you dig in really well, it’s 10 to 1.
Just dig in 15 nukes behind the trenches and play the same game as putin, meaning if the exsistance of a nation is at stake it’s OK to nuke the aggressor.
Putin will get that one.
We need to be ready for anything ,even for nuclear war!
He looks like the Shamwow! guy
USA is walking away from Ukraine and defending Europe. You folks either got to drop the silly environmental stuff, kick out Hungary and Slovakia and arm to the teeth or learn Russian. Your choice
Gonna have to fix EU issues first like Hungary Slovakia veto vote.