What an excellent read. I’m tempted now to hear it and see how much my poor French can manage.
Friedrich Merz has just declared that Europe needs its own military alliance. This is a recognition that France has been right for decades in advocating for strategic autonomy.
Now it must be built. This will require massive investment to replenish the European Defense Fund beyond the Maastricht debt criteria, harmonize weapons and munitions systems, accelerate European Union membership for Ukraine, which now has the leading army in Europe, rethink the role and conditions of nuclear deterrence based on French and British capabilities, and relaunch missile-shield and satellite programs.
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I haven’t heard it put that way before. Interesting to think about.
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Our parents defeated fascism and communism at the cost of great sacrifice. The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century. Long live free Ukraine, long live democratic Europe.
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Dammit, why’d you have to mention that at the end?
What an excellent read. I’m tempted now to hear it and see how much my poor French can manage.
(emphasis mine)
I haven’t heard it put that way before. Interesting to think about.
(emphasis mine)
Dammit, why’d you have to mention that at the end?
Because it’s too verbose to call it “totalitarian state capitalism masquerading as socialism”?
It’s worth a watch/listen, he’s an excellent orator
https://youtu.be/j51HZncBvEI
He’s centre right, of course he dislikes communism.
Democratic socialism with a heavy fucking leash on Capitalism is likely the best system.
Braces for tomatoes
I know, I know, but I was caught up in the rest of what he was saying. Thanks for the link.