Europe: Is compulsory military service coming back?
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#2> The United Kingdom, the United States and Canada have had exclusively professional armies for 50 years or more.
One idea would be for the EU, instead of individual member states, to stand up a professional army. Then you don't have to force people and it also just might bind European countries more closely together.
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#3The obvious question to me is are they arming to defend themselves from Russia or from other European nations rearming? Russia struggled against Ukraine so it seems unlikely that they'd fare well against a country with a similar GDP.
Sardonic congratulations to the fine minds at NATO for manoeuvring us towards this outcome. Anyone who feels optimistic as all these armies limber up is beyond an idiot. As a culture we've missed several decades of opportunities to de-fuse this situation.
I hope all this is a short spark that goes away.
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#4On the positive side, with gender equality the pool of resources is twice as big
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#5> The United Kingdom, the United States and Canada have had exclusively professional armies for 50 years or more. One idea would be for the EU, instead of individual member states, to stand up a professional army. Then you don't have to force people and it also just might bind European countries more closely together.
European Union is not a sovereign entity that can have its 'own' military.
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#6Most of Western Europe is unwilling to fight for their country
https://preview.redd.it/of-europeans-who-would-fight-for-the...
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#7On the positive side, with gender equality the pool of resources is twice as big
You forgot the /s
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#8Most of Western Europe is unwilling to fight for their country https://preview.redd.it/of-europeans-who-would-fight-for-the...
What's the source of this data?
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#9> The United Kingdom, the United States and Canada have had exclusively professional armies for 50 years or more. One idea would be for the EU, instead of individual member states, to stand up a professional army. Then you don't have to force people and it also just might bind European countries more closely together.
European Union is not a sovereign entity that can have its 'own' military.
> European Union is not a sovereign entity that can have its 'own' military.
From a cursory read, it doesn't seem like that stands in the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_army
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#10> The United Kingdom, the United States and Canada have had exclusively professional armies for 50 years or more. One idea would be for the EU, instead of individual member states, to stand up a professional army. Then you don't have to force people and it also just might bind European countries more closely together.
European Union is not a sovereign entity that can have its 'own' military.
That’s true, but there has been discussions about it for at least twenty years. Will it ever materialize? Dunno.