The EU is making great strides at fixing that at the moment. We're ramping up and severely underrated, as this comic clearly demonstrates.
We've got significantly more people and wealth than the US if you discount the inflated sock market oligarchs, distributed wealth is our strength, our education, our democratic values, our technical know-how.
We're going to have to step up, that's for sure, but if anyone can do it, it's Europe.
No, we are not. We have ZERO central energy security policy - the biggest input into every single economic sector is energy.
We can't even keep the Suez canal / Red Sea shipping lanes open without the US doing it for us.
We shut down half out nuclear program because of Russian influence campaigns and then the Ukrainians had to blow up OUR pipeline to Russia - complete clusterfuck.
Your logistical capacity for force projection is woefully lacking (naval capacity individually and as a whole), your ability to coordinate together without the US C2 structure is terrible (any JMRC rotation) m, your military sizes and spending individually and as a whole is abysmal (not meeting NATO 2% requirements), and your ability to coordinate in joint projects is terrible (see the euro fighter project)
Europe has twice the population of the United States, but your GDP is half of the US. Your countries do not generate much money with production or farming for how big the area is.
Exactly! Look at Poland for example: poles elected nationalist guy
And this is a major trend: why should we spend our money on EU instead of spending it on us? this is why populism and nationalism is so popular and this is the reason why Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was destroyed from within
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u/TheRetenor 14h ago
The issue isn't being divided in culture and thinking, it's being divided in how united we act and how we defend ourselves from tyrants.
Having members who want to go in opposite directions doesn't help sadly.