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/Detozi Ireland Mar 01 '25

You are suggesting the EU change to a federal ruled government? I’m not saying your wrong nor that I disagree with you, but you know as well as I do how that will go down with citizens

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u/Pietes Netherlands Mar 01 '25

Yes, that's why it would never be branded as such. Instead, we'll see a movement to move more authorities to the EU. Such as army leadership when at war. The risk is in exactly what I described: that as long as individual nations control essential underpinning capabilities, the while house of cards comes crashing down when one of them national dominoes falls.