‘Time has come’: Zelenskyy demands creation of ‘armed forces of Europe’ – The Times of India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/time-has-come-zelenskyy-demands-creation-of-armed-forces-of-europe/articleshow/118276188.cms

24 comments

  1. Demands? He requests. He pleads. He is also right. We should have one.

  2. No reason why we shouldn’t. Completely separate from the EU.

  3. Pigs will fly before this happens, unfortunately. Europe is way too fucked up and divided to even fathom the creation of such army.

  4. If you don’t stand up for Zelenskyy until he gets captured, kidnapped, tortured and brutally killed after Ukraine falls. Shame on fucking everyone involved to be honest if it happens.

    It’s an extremely dark day in world history if that happens with most Ukrainian civilians either ethnically cleansed with the rest becoming “Russian”.

    We need to step the fuck up before it’s too late for them and the rest of Europe.

  5. I could see it happening. I hope its separate from the european union though, since one veto (hungary) can make it not operational.

  7. Honestly I’d be agreeing to this, if i had yano.. any influence of power on the world stage that is lol

  9. We should have armed force of Europe Yesterday. And I demand Canada join it too

  10. I can’t think of a more chaotic mess then this when every country’s has a election 4 years and let’s say the AFD get to power in Germany eventually and then pulls out of it or Russias spy agency completely compromises it from the inside

    Or Putin loyalist gets elected in a certain country and grinds the whole thing to a halt

    All without American intelligence helping or training

  12. Even if the EU would make some sort of armed forces of Europe, they would not send them to Ukraine until Russia and Ukraine have made peace.

  13. This is absolutely needed. US is no longer an ally, so europe needs to (once again) be able to field military powerful enough to stop russian agression and intervene in middle east or other places if needed for european interests.

  14. As a British person, which is relevant because Britain has provided a LOT of support to Ukraine despite being pretty far away from Russia, I can unfortunately inform you all that the average British person is more likely to be vote to become a communist state than to be part of a European army.

    All the polls back up that we absolutely hate the idea, far more than anyone in the EU: there’s a reason Macron’s only felt safe to float the idea in recent years after Brexit, because if we’d stayed in we would have stopped it.

  16. Can’t we just stick to NATO instead and force all European members to up their spending to 4%? So that a German/French/Polish/UK defense force could be credibly strong enough to defend Ukraine after the truce? That would pretty much cover it, no?

  17. The time was 30 years ago. Going to suck giving up all the social services they have to pay for it.

  18. Probavly every european wants this but then we have our teethless leaders

  20. I agree. The way things are going, they may soon need one to protect themselves from the US.

  21. As an American, and a liberal vet, I would sign up. But I’m old as fuck. I am in good shape. Give me an age waiver. I have a good medical background. Couple of dents in the fender. But the landing gear and wedding tackle work well. The lenses are correctable. Some tough sinew here and there.

  22. I’ve seen this suggested a few times recently. Is there a real European movement associated?

  23. Sitting back and thinking it can’t happen here is how WW2 really started. This ends one way.

  24. He’s 1000% right. The US is no longer dependable (I say this as an American), Europe needs to think about surviving in a world without our support or, I hate to say it, maybe even against us (Trump LOVES other dictators). 

    Zelensky is an incredible leader, I am truly jealous we don’t have a leader like him. 

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