The EU’s first autonomous military exercise was a success. Europe is one year away from the Rapid Deployment Force becoming fully operational

by EUstrongerthanUS

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  2. Now as tim Snyder said, we need an Eu officer corp to have our indipendent cadre from NATO so Trump can frick off in peace

  3. Yeah… except that after the first unexpected encounter all that careful planning goes out of the window 🙂

    /s obviously, compared to the “you don’t need to know that, just shut up and do as you are told” attitude from half a century ago, things seem to have gotten a lot better.

  4. While we don’t have a clear EU federal president like US with total power over the army, this is useless. Good trainment but practically useless.

  6. We should make all the millitary aged men comming in boats join!

  7. Sorry what, robots? Yeah I’m a reddit user and don’t read the article, and I’m not ashamed to admit it

  11. A toast to one of thr most important baby steps for an eventual, proper and united EU military

  12. Finally some good news at the end of 2024. Still not sure about the intel about Russia attacking EU this decade.

  13. There’s foreign power occupying EU member Cyprus at the moment I guess they could start by removing them.

  14. 2022-2023 years show that, as in 20th century, Russia is more than willing to spend as much human resources as it like.

    Rapid Deployment Force will become bigger on 10 thousand soldier more? So what, if to counter this Russia can mobilize +30 thousand cannon fodder more? Yes, with rusty weapons from 1950s, but still with more soldier and more weapons.

    No, what Europe security need the most is 100% guarantee that Russia won’t be able to occupy any Baltic territories, not to mention everyone else. By simple and understandable doctrine:

    1. If EU/NATO won’t be able to protect Baltic/other countries, they will be freed from all WMD-related agreements. That at least somehow fix 2022-2023 years Budapest Memorandum/International Law fiasco, and will become fuse for risk of complete NATO/EU discretization in the case of a successful occupation of the Vilnius. When such agreements anyway will turn in formalities.
    2. Each country has the right to determine conditions when WMD-possessing countries could use WMD on its territories. So if, within a couple of days, Russia will begin to do to Vilnius what it did to Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol, EU politicians/officials instead of stupor, with coffee break for French buns, will start watching as military units lift siege by nuclear strikes on Russian supply lines within Lithuania internationally recognizable (until this is still matters) borders.

  15. EU needs a million man military to take on Russia, short term.

  16. Although I am in favour of the EU being a military union as much as an economic and political union, it is questionable how realistic this plan is. Today, with a veto, the EU’s hands are tied. With which common sense will a rapid intervention be realised? What will be the procedures? Will all EU countries participate in these procedures? If not, how will the partnership between the EU and the Military Union be managed? There are too many problems. I also strongly disagree with “Europe is one year away from the Rapid Deployment Force becoming fully operational”. Much more time is needed. Too much optimism always hurts.

  17. Sweet Europe can take on Russia, america can retire its military and spend money on healthcare

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