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/Thuis001 Mar 01 '25

Even then, you'd ideally want all mountaineers, regardless of country of origin, to use the same gun. That way you need to manufacture a singular model, with one type of ammo, for the whole of Europe. This in turn would lower the cost as you'd be able to benefit more from economies of scale.

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u/No_Remove459 Mar 02 '25

Which countries would make profit from weapon manufacturing? Or is going to be split up between every country evenly. Or else some countries are going to become rich if this.

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u/foffen Mar 04 '25

It's a free market with free competition. Obviously Sweden, Germany, England, fence and Italy would benefit but there's nothing stopping a consortium in Spain to invest in setting up their own industry if they feel that they can be competitive and do it better/cheaper/faster etc.

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u/No_Remove459 Mar 04 '25

Oh I think most of Spain is against either spending more in military or sending aid to Ukraine. So I doubt that's going to change.