• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    I often read “Europe needs the US military to defend itself” online, but is it actually true? Or just the US themselves saying that?

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      5 hours ago

      I often read “Europe needs the US military to defend itself” online, but is it actually true?

      For now at least. Europe doesn’t have the same size of military industrial complex that US has at the moment. Europe needs more time to gear up.

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        5 hours ago

        Europe doesn’t have the same size of military industrial complex that US has at the moment.

        I think it’s for the best. The US military industrial complex is not something that I would like to see replicated in Europe. Of course if the American standard is “police departments should have armored vehicles” then we are not on the same “level”, but do we really need that in order to have an effective military?