#EUsky #EUdef #RussianInfluence

🎯💯 Good for energy security and good for the climate.
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#EUdef #EUenergy #EUclimate

This is why EU and its members must not help the arsonists in ME, but increase support to Ukraine, while reducing our reliance on the US, and limit their use of European bases, so they can't attack ME from them.

We have to promote peace. But EU is not able to. It must be reformed.
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Trumps treatment of EU's members likewise.

Unless EU wants to be on the menu for large powers, EU has to become a superpower itself. That can only happen by a federation and an EU army, EU carriers, EU nukes and an EU-led NATO/NATO replacement.

They don't respect us without.

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Europe’s voice of moral sense speaks Spanish European leaders have been carefully drafting cautious statements urging 'de-escalation' and 'respect for international law'. But one voice has sounded different. And it speaks Spanish.

Right-wing Zionist EUropean media like Politico & Euractiv both have hit pieces on Sanzés & Spain's stand on the clearly illegal war on Iran this morning.

Eurobserver has a more nuanced take. It shows the importance of free media. Gift-link.
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Great! 🫶
Norway should take Iceland's lead on security & double its security arrangements.
Farage leads the polls in the UK, & UKs military & economy are mired in difficulties (mostly Brexit), Norway's only real choice in the new reality is to join EU & §42.7.
EU is 10 times Ru's size.
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Agree. EUrope has much more leverage than our leaders realise, but they don't think like a great power. Time to change that. Use ASML to pressure China & US to concessions when they act against us.
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This would not have happened if the software was FOSS and could have been audited by anyone.

Why we - EU needs to kick out all non-EU tech & work towards FOSS. Its not only cheaper, but also be audited by anyone.

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of returning global power competition, where the EU has to defend itself without the US, this is a key issue that has to be solved.

We don't have the funds to waste 30% on defence, as there are many other priorities.

Again its the national leaders that are the problem.

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#EUdef

When the US has tried to deny Europe & Ukraine Patriot missiles, and license production of missiles (see linked posts), just no! The French were right.

We need EU arms from EU arms manufacturers: Israel & South Korea are not in the EU.

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🎯💯 Agree. While France is France, eg mired in political infighting, the rest of the EU needs to take this to heart (incl the UK), and turn it into policy.

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#EUsky #EUdef

EUropeans needs replace foreign non-EU air-defense systems for EU made, including Israeli.

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Ukraine is winning. This can shorten the war and make Ukraine independent of Trump's bad deals, which wants to give Russia, what it could not get on the battlefield, eg parts of Ukraine.

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@kajakallas.bsky.social @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu
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that they will use dependencies against us, both arms & materials like rare earths. And we can't rely on agreements with the US.

We need EU sovereignty in arms & tech.
And if someone will wake @nokia.bsky.social to make EU smartphones again.

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#DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #EUsky #EUdef

🔓🎯💯 The few remaining European Atlantisist holdouts are wrong & mental more than real, as Philliph shows here. EUrope can defend ourselves, & we have to, as the US has changed.
EU of 450m ppl & an economy 10x the size of Russias, is not undoable.
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of the willing can we defend our way of life.

We need a multispeed EU with a federal core. Its the only way in an increasingly hostile world, where both authoritarian states & the US want to subvert it.

Our politicians will fail. Again.
Give Draghi emergency powers instead.

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Kalles dismisses EU parallel defence structures. That is not only dangerous but also ignorant, as everyone but Rutte can see that EUrope no longer can count on US for anything, incl EU's defence.
NATO is 80% US, so its a no go.

We need an EU defence HQ, C&C, & an EU army ASAP.

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This is what EU & Merz should be doing.
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EU must #reform to be able to respond in the new reality of hard power & defend our interests, as we now are alone, & the current model does not work as has been proven.

The Left is leading on where the EU has to go, eg Sanchez & Frederiksen, while the Right & Merz are in denial.

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Een EU leger is onmiddellijk nodig! #EUDEF

Quite important. Putin, Xi & Trump can move fast. EU has proven unable to keep up with the current governance setup.
If we just add security & defence to a system that is ungovernable, that will not work an better.
We need to reform how EU works.
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"An eco superpower with a population of 450m is asking a country of 340m to defend it from a country of 144m with a GDP size of Spains” as Dave Keating pointedly sums it up.

While EU should deepen our cooperation with other democracies, we have to use the EU to face this new reality
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Combined with Polish FM Sikorski's quote on Russia. Due to Poland being a front-line state, it cannot allow itself to under- or overestimate Russia.
He is right. Tell again why we need the US for security guarantees in Ukraine?
The dependence is mostly in our minds.
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This is armed robbery in broad daylight by DKs #ClosestAlly. Might is right & stealing from your own allies under threat of force is ok, if they have something your broligarch buddies want like 🇬🇱
Attempts to deny it are not credible.

EU is 550m & eco 2nd to US only: they all bend the knee.
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"Sovereignty, however, is an inherent right of democratic states, not a subscription model provided at the mercy of foreign entities.

... the need to untangle and de-risk from American dependencies is now an urgent security requirement."

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#TechSovereignty #EuroStack #FOSS #EUsky #EUdef

Again, several EU member states in a coalition of the willing can move forward with #EnhancedCooperation.

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@andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social
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No need to bend the knee for anyone.

EU needs to beef up its foreign policy capacity & military planning capacity, and most importantly

EUrope needs mental #IndependenceDay

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@kajakallas.bsky.social
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🎯💯 This is very, very recent & agree w Kubilius. EU must be changed with adding the security & defence part & reformed: setting up HQ, etc, #EUSecurityCouncil & take over the capabilities US delivers to EU today via NATO, & set up an EU army of 100.000 soldiers.

Sounds pretty good to me.
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📌 Update : His 3-pillar vision for #EUDef summarized here
And more ℹ on 🇪🇺 Security Council and E5+ format (↓2/2)

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🎯💯 Much to agree with here. I'd even go for an "EU-lead" of European & possibly Canadian troops in Greenland, as that is a signal to Trump.

Also agree that Denmark's EU opt-outs are no longer serving, but instead put us away from the core of the EU.

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