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Topic: former USA allies need to regroup

boof started this discussion 2 weeks ago #132,023

it's a fucking emergency

SUPREME joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #1,410,743

They need to create a union of European countries. Some sort of "European Union."

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 21 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,410,745

The emergency is they thought they could get away with paying little into their military budgets and rely on the US to do everything for them.

Maybe they could move some funds from healthcare into defense?

Trump already negotiated lower drug prices, but with the deadweight eurodegens no longer taking our money maybe we could afford some better medical care here.

SUPREME replied with this 2 weeks ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,410,747

@previous (C)
France and the United Kingdom both have nuclear weapons. They don’t need to spend more money on their military, they already have a deterrent.

SUPREME double-posted this 2 weeks ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,410,748

Canada doesn’t have any US bases and they have free healthcare. The idea that there’s this choice between healthcare and the military is nonsense.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,410,755

@1,410,747 (SUPREME)

> France and the United Kingdom both have nuclear weapons. They don’t need to spend more money on their military, they already have a deterrent.

UK has 120 and France has 290 operational. Mostly air or sub launched that we know of.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,410,758

@previous (D)
During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union got into this silly thing where they thought, "Oh if I have 1,000 nukes and you have 1,001 nukes, you’ll win the war so I need to build more nukes!" But in reality, if you have around 100 nukes, you can basically destroy any country you want so there’s zero point to making more than that other than ego.

Anonymous E double-posted this 2 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,410,759

Of course, a lot of countries have the capability to produce nukes, but chose not to because the US and UN both pushed the idea that more nuclear weapons in the world is a bad thing. There are plenty of countries like Japan that have the ability to enrich uranium but don’t have nuclear weapons, or South Africa that don’t have enrichment facilities but have a stockpile of weapons grade uranium they could assemble into a nuclear device. So it’s not like a binary thing, some countries could build nuclear weapons much faster than others.

Anonymous C replied with this 2 weeks ago, 5 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,410,817

@1,410,747 (SUPREME)
The UK is part of the United States in practice, and France can't launch their nukes if everyone in that chain of command is on strike.
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