Europe will lose all credibility if Russia wins in Ukraine, warns Macron
www.telegraph.co.uk
French president invokes Winston Churchill’s call to maintain the ‘sinews of peace’ in a prime-time interview on his stance on the conflict

The war in Ukraine is “existential for our Europe and for France”, Mr Macron said in the interview on France 2 and TF1.

“Do you think that the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Estonians, the Romanians and the Bulgarians could remain at peace for a second [in the event of a Russian victory in Ukraine]?” he asked. “If Russia wins this war, Europe’s credibility would be reduced to zero.”

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Maybe if we all pool our efforts together, then maybe we can match North Korea production?
    Remember folks we are up against industry giants here, we can’t expect to be able to match them in just a couple of years.
    /s

    • P1r4nha@feddit.de
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      5 months ago

      There’s a few things Europe isn’t good at:

      • Weapons and weapon systems are developed independently. That results in incompatible weapons and very expensive production costs because they aren’t produced at scale and multiple versions of the same are developed by the different countries/manufacturers.
      • The only military international logistics and organization that European countries currently know is NATO. Outside the NATO framework organization is completely chaotic.
      • Similar to the first two points: The European countries don’t have their military interests aligned and can’t agree on deployment, funding and procurement of weapons. Bureaucracy stands in the way of scaling up production.

      On the other hand: Europe is rich and technologically advanced. We’ve seen in the first two years since the Russian invasion that technological superiority can outpace the sheer mass of human capital that Russia can throw at the front.