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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4710 on: January 08, 2019, 11:12:18 am »
It would have to be? Says who?

For a whole bunch of reasons.
1) This EU military union is supposed to be about deterring Russia. If you give Putin's mates in Budapest and elsewhere the power of veto over its deployments then that doesn't really work.
2) Having 27 potential vetoes over EU military policy would render it essentially useless
3) France is not about to give Luxembourg or Malta a veto over where it moves its tanks
4) The EU is moving away from the national veto in general anyway

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5) Germany is not going to give up as big a prize as this

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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4711 on: January 08, 2019, 12:08:20 pm »
Ah, says you. Okay.

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« Reply #4712 on: January 08, 2019, 01:48:00 pm »
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Because we're not fighting an interstate conflict right now, hello.

And when we do, our twelve tanks will surely tip the balance.

More are coming. There are concrete plans now to expand to batallion size.

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I'll grace it with an answer:
Intel

I have to disagree with you there. Like you said yourselves, airplanes allow you to run low-risk operations. The benefits of showing your involvement in the world with the minimum amount of risk. If you don't have tanks, you can't be asked to send them to some UN mission and get them put out of action by a African childsoldier with a RPG. We don't need our Armed Forces for national defence, just for national interests. Like bombing people in Syria. The decisions to invest in the airforce (and in the military in general) is for political reasons, not for actual military reasons.

Yes it was mainly a political reason to invest in newer aircraft. Yes the decision to go to the F35 was also mostly political. The other, military, side of it, is that the Netherlands, who already have a reputation of having a high efficiency with IMINT (any intel, really), can fly mostly recon flights. The number of aircraft could have been made bigger, but that wasn't the point.
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4713 on: January 09, 2019, 01:14:07 am »
Trump still trolling lol
https://www.dw.com/en/trump-administration-downgrades-eu-mission-to-us/a-46990608

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The unannounced move by the US State Department, which has not previously been reported, downgraded the EU delegation's diplomatic status in Washington from member state to international organization.

"We don't exactly know when they did it, because they conveniently forgot to notify us," an EU official who is familiar with the matter told DW in an interview.



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« Reply #4714 on: January 09, 2019, 08:56:33 am »
He is actually starting to do harm now... He's literally making this up as he goes. Just like when that journalist asked him if he was going to declare state of emergency over the border wall, he literally got the idea there and then and just throws it out there.
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« Reply #4715 on: January 09, 2019, 09:34:09 am »
You must have amazing insight.
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« Reply #4716 on: January 09, 2019, 10:00:26 am »
Yeah I am clairvoyant actually.
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« Reply #4717 on: January 09, 2019, 10:08:22 am »
How could I harness this power?
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4718 on: January 09, 2019, 10:13:12 am »
He is actually starting to do harm now... He's literally making this up as he goes. Just like when that journalist asked him if he was going to declare state of emergency over the border wall, he literally got the idea there and then and just throws it out there.

Nah he's hilarious. Next stop should be targeting Brussels representation at the G7/G20. Why are they even there?

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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4719 on: January 09, 2019, 10:27:38 am »


I can appreciate a god-tier troll when I see one

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« Reply #4720 on: January 09, 2019, 11:17:08 am »
Not a photoshop
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4721 on: January 09, 2019, 10:32:03 pm »
Does he watch Game of Thrones? That's what I've been wondering
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4722 on: January 10, 2019, 07:50:13 am »


Data from IQ and Inequality book from 2006.

Probably one of the worst books ever written. Basically says half of Africa is mentally retarded.
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Re: The General Political Thread
« Reply #4723 on: January 10, 2019, 01:14:50 pm »
Was it written in China?
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« Reply #4724 on: January 10, 2019, 02:06:13 pm »
Was it written in China?
Psychologist from England and Finnish political 'scientists'  (big science lads) wrote it. And in what world would China allow Japan to have such high IQ.