Well, there are people here who are better versed in the state of the EU and western europe in general, but it seems to me the weapons aspect of things largely comes down to imperial interests wanting to shape the region into a weapon, not just produce weapons. Like how Ukraine was effectively hollowed out and turned into a military outpost, with its people conscripted to try to break Russia.
They keep fear-mongering about the “threat of Russia” and as I understand it, want to cut social services in favor of military spending. This will not produce countries that can defend themselves better; it will devolve the places into barely functioning societies that depend heavily on military as industry to make it seem like it’s working at all (which is to some extent the situation the US is in already).
What EU countries need is what all societies in history benefit from, which is to value human life and work toward peace. But as long as imperialists are running the show, any picture of peace is going to be distorted by their class interests in domination and exploitation of the world. Which includes having bogeyman threats like Russia, China, etc., that they will tell you are the monster under the bed that is coming for you.
Well, there are people here who are better versed in the state of the EU and western europe in general, but it seems to me the weapons aspect of things largely comes down to imperial interests wanting to shape the region into a weapon, not just produce weapons. Like how Ukraine was effectively hollowed out and turned into a military outpost, with its people conscripted to try to break Russia.
They keep fear-mongering about the “threat of Russia” and as I understand it, want to cut social services in favor of military spending. This will not produce countries that can defend themselves better; it will devolve the places into barely functioning societies that depend heavily on military as industry to make it seem like it’s working at all (which is to some extent the situation the US is in already).
What EU countries need is what all societies in history benefit from, which is to value human life and work toward peace. But as long as imperialists are running the show, any picture of peace is going to be distorted by their class interests in domination and exploitation of the world. Which includes having bogeyman threats like Russia, China, etc., that they will tell you are the monster under the bed that is coming for you.