This is how real the war is in Europe:
Denmark has called up its young women for mandatory military training and is now in the process of expanding it's navy with
— 6 additional armed frigates for The Danish Navy
— 5 Arctic patrol ships
— 21 patrol ships for The Marine Home Guard
— 4 sea surveillance ships with sea mine laying capability
— 1 underwater surveillance vessel
— underwater drones
This is in a country of just 5.9 million.
@KimSJ @randahl I'm no historian but I suspect future histories will conclude there was no other way it could happen. The US war machine made its overthrow virtually impossible.
And the fact that every 4-8 years they are intent on electing complete headcases, even during wartime, means that as a partner they're completely unreliable.
Start a war with a Biden alongside you may finish it with a Trump. Ask Hiroshima how that goes.
Iraq would likely be glass if 911 had happened under Trump.
@BonehouseWasps @KimSJ @randahl as an Israeli I agree, a lot.
It was and still is clear, that the United States are unstable. For years now, especially since Trump was elected, people joked a lot about an American rebellion. It just seemed so inevitable.
Especially since Obama restricted funds usage to American soil, Israel started reducing reliance on America, in favour of Europe—we even tried ascending to the union, but Netanjahu spread propaganda that Europe is Muslim, and antisemitic...
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@BonehouseWasps @KimSJ @randahl ...although Europe was at the time less muslim and less antisemitic, the latter still incredibly true today, and I'm pretty sure the former is as well.
Before Oct. 7th and starting again 20 days ago or so, American Jews were viewed as endangered, as in, personally—it is just so very clear that America will one day turn on us.
But we simply couldn't break the alliance, until now.
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@BonehouseWasps @KimSJ @randahl first there's Netanjahu; he's sponsored by American organisations (that should not be legal) in addition to his Qatari corruption.
But second there was the Iraq war, the American protectorate in Kurdistan, the Afghanistan wars, and so many other middle easern wars and territories we could not make an enemy of.
An third, Obama's restrictions forced Israel to move weapon production to America.
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@BonehouseWasps @KimSJ @randahl Israel is now rebuilding its entire defense industry precisely because of America's lack of reliability, despite Netanjahu's corruption and links with them: when the Ukraine war started, the United States didn't pay for new weaponry; no, it reallocated the weapons it stored in Israel, meant to deter the Hamas.
Consequently, Hamas attacked, and Israel now went fuck you and is in the process of removing reliance on American aid completey.
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We're in fact in a pretty important crossroad right now: Netanjahu is more hated than ever, Hamas is the weakest it has been since 2018, and America is collapsing.
Ascending to the European Union and joining a European defense pact is only limited by one, singular thing: Palestine.
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@Ash_Crow @BonehouseWasps @KimSJ @randahl that's nonsense: cyprus isn't in Europe as well. Morocco wasn't accepted due to politics, flat out.
Besides, Israel shares European culture and history. It's the origin of christianity and Abrahamic religions as a whole, was invaded by European empires constantly (philistines, greek, rome, ottomans, UK), the origin of all european alphabets, major trade partner with greece (i.e. BC), where western civilization originated...
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Besides, if Israel joined the EU, the European migrant crisis will be over, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees would simply gain European citizenship, which will enable them to move freely, to their homeland, or to any other European country, spreading the stress on culture and the economy neatly.
It's a win-win situation.
@Ash_Crow @BonehouseWasps @KimSJ @randahl sorry for infodumping, but the "but it's not in Europe" is simply an excuse for "we don't want to give you veto power but can't switch to direct democracy because of hungary"
And the migrant crisis I am talking about is a cultural one, where countries who previously could have their cake and eat it too—e.g. france—benefitted from in this example state religion separation, but now that they actually have another religion that does things differently...
@Ash_Crow @BonehouseWasps @KimSJ @randahl ...there are disagreements. And those disagreements will become a lot more civil if the Israeli Palestinian conflict ended, in a lot of ways.
The economical migrant crisis is very temporary imo.
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