Most EU countries simply have no military to speak of that could possibly try to conquer anything. EU conquers with money, but that's quickly running out as the remnants of industry that survived long-term green policies and more recently Coof mania are rapidly burning through the last of their reserves.
I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, Volkswagen is threatening to move out of Germany now due to unsustainable energy prices.
I agree that necessity creates some interesting outcomes, and that EU citizens won't want to ration energy forever. But there's zero chance EU states are building a modern military anytime within the next at least 10 years. For example, there is pretty much no way to make ammunition in the EU at a massive scale, due to legal issues and ecological regulations, and even if we hanged every watermelon shithead tomorrow, it's been like that for decades, and modern industry is so incredibly complicated that it would take decades to get up to speed. The knowhow is gone, too. And we're not hanging all the pinkos tomorrow anyway.
If EU citizens do rise, we won't be conquering foreign countries, we'll be retaking our own lands, armed with WW2-era weapons and using old ammo stocks. That could work in a civil war, but it would never work in an invasion.
Were Russia not a nuclear power, I'd agree and wonder if this whole operation wasn't a gambit to destroy Russia's military in the Ukraine, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from other fronts. Then Western powers invade to impose their long-desired partitioning plans - where to the victors go the spoils.
But Russia is a nuclear power and you can't engage in direct wars of conquest or "regime change" against them. Unless there are highly placed traitors who are planning to secure the launch sites... maybe Putin himself is part of the West's plans, though I guess his ego would prevent that.
Most EU countries simply have no military to speak of that could possibly try to conquer anything. EU conquers with money, but that's quickly running out as the remnants of industry that survived long-term green policies and more recently Coof mania are rapidly burning through the last of their reserves.
I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, Volkswagen is threatening to move out of Germany now due to unsustainable energy prices.
I agree that necessity creates some interesting outcomes, and that EU citizens won't want to ration energy forever. But there's zero chance EU states are building a modern military anytime within the next at least 10 years. For example, there is pretty much no way to make ammunition in the EU at a massive scale, due to legal issues and ecological regulations, and even if we hanged every watermelon shithead tomorrow, it's been like that for decades, and modern industry is so incredibly complicated that it would take decades to get up to speed. The knowhow is gone, too. And we're not hanging all the pinkos tomorrow anyway.
If EU citizens do rise, we won't be conquering foreign countries, we'll be retaking our own lands, armed with WW2-era weapons and using old ammo stocks. That could work in a civil war, but it would never work in an invasion.
Were Russia not a nuclear power, I'd agree and wonder if this whole operation wasn't a gambit to destroy Russia's military in the Ukraine, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from other fronts. Then Western powers invade to impose their long-desired partitioning plans - where to the victors go the spoils.
But Russia is a nuclear power and you can't engage in direct wars of conquest or "regime change" against them. Unless there are highly placed traitors who are planning to secure the launch sites... maybe Putin himself is part of the West's plans, though I guess his ego would prevent that.