Posted on 02/13/2024 7:48:58 AM PST by Cronos
The European Union should form its own combined army that could play a role in peacekeeping and preventing conflict, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.
In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Tajani said that closer European cooperation on defence was a priority for the Forza Italia party that he leads.
"If we want to be peacekeepers in the world, we need a European military. And this is a fundamental precondition to be able to have an effective European foreign policy," he said in an interview published on Sunday.
"In a world with powerful players like the United States, China, India, Russia - with crises from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific - Italian, German, French or Slovenian citizens can only be protected by something that already exists, namely the European Union," he added.
...Tajani also said the 27-nation EU should streamline its leadership and have a single presidency, rather than the current structure of a European Council president and a European Commission president. The foreign minister became leader of Forza Italia following the death of Silvio Berlusconi last year.
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No, I mean Americans that give a damn about the country.
The EU as it stands as roughly equivalent to the Articles of Confederation era United States. Creating a standing pan European army is a logical step on the path to a United States of Europe.
given how Nazified the EU is, the Italian is (possibly inadvertedly) asking for an armed 4th Reich
If they wanted to prevent an EU army, they shouldn’t have blown up the pipeline and then forced the EU countries to pretend Russia did it.
the problem with a EU army is that they would be fighting amongst themselves quite frequently.
and they have always been at war with east asia.
As far as threats go, that falls flat. Or put another way: “if you tell me, as an American, that you will go nuclear if I don’t let you bleed me dry, I’ll support making sure you won’t need street lamps to see at night.”
Bingo. European "royalty" and politicians proved themselves unworthy of governing, as evidenced by their heinous acts against each other, their own populations, and populations overseas.
Once the Germans were warlike and mean
But that couldn’t happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then
-Tom Lehrer
First, the Europeans would have to actually get serious about providing for their own defense.
Get back to me when that happens because I see no evidence that it ever will.
So, what am I missing? 90% of Germans won’t fight for their country and prefer that American boys fight for them and die for them?????
Any President that sends troops to fight for a low life population like that should be impeached in one week and thrown into Maximum Security at Florence, Colorado.
More like ‘don’t call us, we’ll call you’. 😉
Well, listen, kid, you paid for the call
You ain’t bad but we’ve heard it all before
There you have it. So you do grasp why we don’t want an EU army.
Finland to the fore...
Which of those three Baltic states would pick up arms to join an EU army?
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