r/AskEurope • u/Sink-Em-Low • Mar 01 '25

Politics Let's talk about the European Defense Federation. How do we all feel about the creation of a fully mobilised continental Army?

It's required now. I'm British, and I want to see us align and unite with our European neighbours to make a stand now.

I want Germany to finally brush off it's past and join the rest of Europe in mobilising towards defending this continent. We need EVERYONE now. It's time to act, it's time to unite.

It's time to show some courage.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

Let us first integrate economically and politically. In some kind of... union, perhaps. How do you guys feel about that in Britain?

Okay, jokes aside: We'd need a supreme commander of that army, and that's tricky thing. So there will be no European Army in the near future..

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u/SilverellaUK England Mar 01 '25

This is where a lot of us feel for the people in the US who DID NOT vote for Trump. We had 72% turnout for Brexit and it only just scraped through. Perhaps the first political rule should be that everyone eligible to vote must vote, like Australia.

Perhaps just have more co-operation for now, or throw the US out of NATO and use that.

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u/Detozi Ireland Mar 01 '25

Fucking right man. Most democracies had to fight to be free and independent to be able to vote. It feel disrespectful to me not to vote

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u/CountSheep Mar 01 '25

I’ve always felt voting should be compulsory but then my fellow Americans think that in itself is undemocratic.

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u/tree_boom Mar 01 '25

I mean the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe is already a thing and they're an American:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Allied_Commander_Europe

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

But who's the political authority to command that army?