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For decades, European politicians have not been honest with their citizens about the degree to which they live in a US protectorate. Dumping the entire truth now on a public that has been up till now blissfully unaware is a hard task. My emergency #EUCO curtain-raiser:

davekeating.substack.comEurope rearms as the transatlantic alliance collapsesEU leaders are racing to Brussels for an emergency summit tomorrow, and Germany is coming with a shocking €1 trillion rearmament plant. But these long-term measures don't solve the immediate crisis.

Jason O’Mahony

@jasonomahony.bsky.social

6 Mar 2025

True. But the other unspoken truth is that Europe €200 billion a year would dwarf Russia if we didn’t piss it away on duplicated national armies.

Dave Keating

@davekeating.substack.com

Yes exactly. The whole military spending issue is a red herring. Yes Europe should spend more on defence, but the spending isn't the problem. The problem is the lack of a sovereign European defence with its own command and control structure. The problem is that there's nothing other than NATO.

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Jason O’Mahony

@jasonomahony.bsky.social

6 Mar 2025

I think there’s a model where we keep nat armies under joint command but have a shared “EuroArsenal” that does the heavy lifting of purchasing high cost fighters etc and leases them out to those who need them. And maintains the huge amounts of battlefield consumables Ukraine has shown is needed.