On many things that might be true, he’s a typical European centrist in that regard, but he’s been championing EU’s military independence for decades and has been getting endless pushback for it. That suddenly changed after Russia invaded Ukraine and his position became the default in Europe.
He wants to push this because france is one of the largest weapon manufacturers in the world, that was always a major reason for the pushback, because it is purely a selfserving and warmongering agenda.
What makes you think all this militarism will be purely defensive and won’t just end up being used against ourselves? (Especially when that line is being pushed by france, whose weapons are being used to slaughter civilians all the time and a country who is extremely violent towards it’s own population.)
edit: I’m not trying to come of as an asshole but this man has been fucking awful here and you should be wary of anything coming out of his mouth
On many things that might be true, he’s a typical European centrist in that regard, but he’s been championing EU’s military independence for decades and has been getting endless pushback for it. That suddenly changed after Russia invaded Ukraine and his position became the default in Europe.
He wants to push this because france is one of the largest weapon manufacturers in the world, that was always a major reason for the pushback, because it is purely a selfserving and warmongering agenda.
What makes you think all this militarism will be purely defensive and won’t just end up being used against ourselves? (Especially when that line is being pushed by france, whose weapons are being used to slaughter civilians all the time and a country who is extremely violent towards it’s own population.)
edit: I’m not trying to come of as an asshole but this man has been fucking awful here and you should be wary of anything coming out of his mouth