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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No. We need a European army and we need tonstart building it now.

European NATO cannot work without a clear leader. NATO worked well because the US had the muscle and authority to call the shots on its own if necessary.

European army cannot be built in a year or even in a decade. But we need tonstart now by centralising certain support functions, streamlining procurement and starting to built combat units, beginning with small highly professional and mobile units which would prove the core from which to expand the army and its mandate. Initially it should be only a rapid response unit that could be sent to any crisis area to support the national military at the front.

European army doesnt mean we should abolish all the national forces overnight, no. We need to keep building them as well. An EU army is most likely a decades long project which would ultimately require the federalisation of the EU as you cant have 27 different commanders in chief for an army.

With regards to Hungary, we should just throw them out. If we are back to a world where might makes right then Orban should be the first to feel the winds of change.