[nomass]

As a European I hope we find the courage and the strength to allow ourselves to be militarized as we where at the beginning of the 20th century. I think to a certain degree a military conflict with China would not be a bad thing. Here we have achived quite a few things of which each of his own would be worth dying for.

Typical western values are seriously underrated and are not taken seriously.

[UncleEntity]

> Here we have achived quite a few things of which each of his own would be worth dying for.

What, like nuclear bombs?

Because that's what most likely will kill you in a large scale conflict between superpowers.

There ought to be a law that you can't advocate for war unless you've actually been to war...

[bilbo0s]

I don't think he really understands the full implications of modern warfare between global powers. He's likely thinking in terms of firearms and tanks. Maybe some airplanes.

He's in for a big surprise.

On the plus side, the surprise will be quick.

[dwaltrip]

They are talking about the culture and values, not the weapons used to defend those things.

I'm not saying I agree that war would be good.

[pas]

Instead of military spending, we should get our education and politics act together. We should be at least ready to pivot to self sufficiency.

We depend on Putin's mercy for energy, because a lot of us skipped game theory in kindergarden apparently. Someone mentioned cell phones. Yes that'd be good, to have a full end to end electronics pipeline around here. And so on.

[nomass]

We have very little military spending. The ukraine invasion was a very successfull testrun for Putin. We in Europe we keep ourselve weak and defenseless. Why?

[skrause]

We're not defenseless. The Ukraine just isn't part of either the NATO or the EU and not really close to the rest of Europe. If Russia was about to invade part of Finland the reaction would be quite different.

[pas]

The parent comment advocated for more military spending. I tried to offer better places for money.