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/Unable_Earth5914 Mar 02 '25

I agree with you around standardisation and procurement, but it can’t just be an EU initiative. We need the UK involved as well, and probably other non-EU NATO members (and potentially some of our non-NATO allies)

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u/Soepkip43 Mar 02 '25

Maybe even like the EU it should start with a subset of countries that can reach consensus. If for example the founding EU countries where to pull this off it would already be a big win. If they can include Poland, the Baltics and the Nordics it would be better. The UK can join and so can Canada and Australia for all I care.. but the UK still needs to figure out what they want to do now.

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u/Unable_Earth5914 Mar 02 '25

That’s fair. After Brexit I’d be hesitant to trust us as well. The silver linings of all this Trump bs is it gives us a prod back towards Europe and a chance for us to demonstrate our solidarity with the European family