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What is the problem exactly? Sometimes I get news from non EU sources, should I not post those then? Is the source bad? Is the reporting inaccurate? What’s the issue with an Indian paper?

I thought I posted news about this earlier but I can’t seem to find it, but I also had some connection issues so maybe it didn’t go through. Didn’t see it removed in the modlog either, but if this is off topic for Europe, just let me know and I’ll remove it.

That’s my point. We should work as one entity, not necessarily one country, but at least stop wasting resources with everyone doing their own thing. We have SEVENTEEN different types of tanks in Europe.

When it comes to these things we should think of ourselves as EU first, country second, or we won’t make it in the might-makes-right future that the US is trying to shape.

My question is “how many different tanks do we need”? Shouldn’t the EU have just one, or possibly two MBTs? Why duplicate all the efforts and maintain different setups?

The US has one MBT.

Ukraine had the Budapest Memorandum and a strong military. Didn’t help much, especially when one of the guarantees refused to help and the other being the perpetrator.

What triggered the war IMHO was when Russias puppet Yanukovych was removed from power. It was then clear that Ukraine wanted to move west, and Russia wouldn’t have any of that.

And NATO.

Russia using potential NATO membership as an excuse to invade Ukraine is just that, an excuse. Ukraine was turning west, and Russia couldn’t accept that.

NATO? Or the EU?

Would it though? I have doubts.

Not so sure, I had a chat with both mistral and anthropic recently and while lagging, mistral has some interesting offerings.

But the US and China are clear leaders in this space due to huge investments that we can’t/won’t match.

Yeah, I saw that too. Amusing.

Genuinely happy that they’re not doing their best election ever, which I honestly expected. Russia backed woman hating xenophobic traitors as they are.

https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3752

This one says that 17% has a negative view of the EU. That’s quite a spread.

Generally no, this is some weird sub group…

I know the EU is strict with the rules, but I somehow doubt that the Euro is a requirement for participation in security missions. 😁

Might be a little more anonymous than Visa, but not as anonymous as cash. The bank will still be able to see where you buy, but probably not what. Swish is like WERO in that it uses your phone number, so yeah, if you get a payment you can see their number.

It probably won’t work on uncertified phones, but also because it uses BankID, the digital-id card everyone uses. If anything, the bank-id is the bigger problem because you basically can’t function in Sweden without one.

Sweden only I’m afraid, but there’s also a nordic one called Vipps that works in all (I think) nordic countries.

Would love to have it EU wide though.

No need to fly. A girl I know took the bus to Cambodia, spent the night, and returned to Thailand the next day. Visa renewed. :)

Swish is wonderful. I pay petty much everything with swish these days, just to avoid using Visa or any other US payment system.

Very true.