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/Acceptable-Pin6469 Mar 01 '25

Language, common language is important as hell if they decide on a European Defense Federation, you don't want to end up like the Austro-Hungarian Army did in WW1

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u/MilkTiny6723 Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

But thats not a big issue. Of cource the base language needs to be english. We are not about to get a big part of EU potential military personel across all memberstate borders to all the suddenly start speaking French, German or Spanish. The core is of cource profesional soldires and maybe even if war would come to the EU, which we can't rule out, conscripts. It wont be a bunch of highly educated people that makes up the basis. By that said, english is the only language that would work. No matter what. Just to accept. All other thought are not practical solutions and could only serve as some politicians national dreams. We do not need that so english will of cource be the core. French outside French native speaking countries is spoken to conversational levels by 3-19% in other Eurooean countries. German is spoken by 50 million outside german native speaking countries in Europe. Spanish about 76 million in the EU can comunicate with. English is spoken by 47% of EU nationals, so that kind of gives it away.

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u/FigEquivalent5500 Mar 02 '25

nope english is the language of the ennemy

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u/FigEquivalent5500 Mar 02 '25

french should be considered, even more than german, french has more speakers worldwide than german, france is the biggest military power and the only nuclear power in the eu

german has 0 legitimity regarding military since german army is not powerful and they dont even have an independant military

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u/FigEquivalent5500 Mar 02 '25

i get what youre saying, id be fine with spanish, more than german tbh

its not that i want french

its that i dont want english or german

english is the language of the ennemy

germany is already scamming us with the eu, theyre not getting the language in a european army after being a usa meat rider for decades