#CAP is the single biggest post on EUs budget today w >450bn€/y. UK has ended subsidies for farmers, so EU can do the same. This could pay for a shiny new EU army. With HQ, C&C, ISR, & 100.000 troops, & all the enablers US delivers to NATO Europe today. No cut in welfare spending. 🇪🇺⚔️ #EUsky #EUdef

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🎯💯 This is a key thing to do now for EU. Use the opportunity to remove the national vetos. 🇪🇺⚔️ #EUsky #EUdef

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vdL & Merz will likely find some excuse try to do another surrender deal, despite every interaction points to that EU has to hit Trump in equal measure or harder. Why are 550m bending the knee for 350m? The Atlaticists are still in denial, & refuses to lead. 🇪🇺 We need new leadership. #EUsky #EUdef

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Von der Leyen & Merz are still in apppeasement mode. EUrope has to stop being vassels. Pax Americana is dead. Time to face reality. 550m ppl does not need 350m to protect them from 160m. Its that easy. Time to cancel the US bases in EUrope. #EUsky #EUdef

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As Germany is 25% of EU, this is a key question. Also, large German armies has been used against other EUropeans historically... What we need is European Germany, where many of the enablers Germany can fund, are shared via an EU army and HQ C&C. @[email protected] #EUsky #EUdef

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Agree. Russian asset or not is of no consequence, as the actions are what counts in war. Fortunately Ukraine is no longer exposed, or dependent on US, but many EUropeans still use US arms & systems. EUrope has to ask ourself, why do 550m people need 350m people to protect them against 160m? #EUdef

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"The strategic reality Europe must now absorb is that free movement of goods, energy, and military power across the world’s oceans is no longer guaranteed by someone else. It never should have been." 🎯 For a continent that depends on #trade, this is not sustainable. We need an EU navy. 🇪🇺⚔️ #EUdef

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