Comment by pembrook
8 months ago
Joe Biden on the floor of the US senate over 30+ years ago complaining about how Europe has no coherent common strategy on defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA9eMKNCRuQ
8 months ago
Joe Biden on the floor of the US senate over 30+ years ago complaining about how Europe has no coherent common strategy on defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA9eMKNCRuQ
Here's actual US policy
https://www.ft.com/content/ad16ce08-763b-11e9-bbad-7c18c0ea0...
> The US has warned that greater military co-operation between EU countries would be a “dramatic reversal” of three decades of transatlantic defence integration, in the latest sign of the fraying relationship between Washington and Brussels.
That's 2019. When Trump was in power.
> It said that Washington was “deeply concerned” that approval of the rules for the European Defence Fund and the Permanent Structured Cooperation, or Pesco, launched in 2017 to plug gaps in Europe’s military power, would “produce duplication, non-interoperable military systems, diversion of scarce defence resources and unnecessary competition between Nato and the EU”.
>"When have the Germans moved in a way to unify that continent?"
Uh, Joe, it was a pretty bad scene the last time that happened.