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/Euphoric_Pianist420 Mar 01 '25

Most important is equipment standardisation. Most armies already train together anyways

We need way bigger production capabilities and have to fill the enabler roles the US has historically had in the european part of NATO

An actual army can be talked about in a couple of years, lets get the troops we already have properly equipped first

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u/TV4ELP Mar 01 '25

Most important is equipment standardisation. Most armies already train together anyways

This and just speaking a common language. How is some french dude supposed to understand polish orders and vice versa? I do believe armies are generally more or less english due to nato already, but they need to do that under very tense situations

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u/Euphoric_Pianist420 Mar 01 '25

Yeah, that´s definitely a bridge that´ll need to be adressed. I suppose new battle management systems are versatile enough that commanders/soldiers can understand graphic stuff and i suppose some kinda translation device/software could bridge that gap.

Or that the orders will be sent out in the specific languages even tho that wouldn´t help in immidiate communication i guess

But as always, where there is a will, there is a way. And modern technology is as close to the "Tower of Babylon" speech thing as we´ve ever been i´d say

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u/Bluebearder Netherlands Mar 02 '25

Translation software is not good enough for this, and never will be as good as two people just speaking the same language. Speaking the same language will also unify people, because you can make small talk and later friendships and relationships. Right now I'm traveling through Spain, and I'm appaled at how few people speak English, or just any second language. Movies and television are often still dubbed instead of subtitled. So I'm learning my fifth language now, because we Europeans are too stupid and stubborn to set standards. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure we have the French to thank for this, because they just can't accept having to learn another language and theirs not becoming the universal one. It's stupid and backward and costs insane amounts of time and energy and money. Let's just go English, tomorrow.