Posted on 11/14/2018 3:05:50 PM PST by mandaladon
The EU will NEVER gets all its poop in one sock, and Eastern Europe thinks highly of the US, making socialist Western Europe practically disarmed.
A European Army would be worthless without the US nuclear umbrella. Conventional forces are only worth something in an environment where neither side dares to use nukes.
It depends on what Rules of Engagement you're willing to use. If you need to physically arrest border crossers, then a judge orders their release, then you don't have enough men to hold it.
If you are allowed to use deadly force on illegal crossers, then after the first few skeletons mark the crossing points, crossing will decline drastically.
We protected them (all on our dime) for almost a half century against the Warsaw Pact, and our troops stationed there helped their economy tremendously over that same time period and beyond. And THIS is the thanks we get?
We should pull out all our troops from that dysfunctional nation NOW. And then watch from afar as Islam completes what we should’ve let the Russians do in ‘45 — destroy Germany completely.
She's Germany's answer to the UK's Chamberlain, or perhaps more accurately, she works for Putin.
Merkel might as well start buying plastic army men from Amazon. Germany currently spends 1.2% of its GDP on defense and plans to zoom that all the way up to a stellar 1.5% by 2025. At that rate of increase they’ll surpass the 2% threshold they’ve already committed to (and reneged on) right around the centenary of their last march on Moscow.
Merkel, typically said the bare minimum "ok to the EU army"
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