Simplifying a bit here (I'm obviously taking Morocco and Belarus for granted, assuming that Turkey wouldn't attack Greece, and so on), but it's pretty much a "gotta get our shit together" situation, because there's no reason why we should depend on the US for defense, or anything else.

[–] paholg@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assume you meant trillion and not million for those gdp figures? Even then, they're low.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Fixed, good catch

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 months ago

That's about architecture more than resources. "Gotta get our shit together" doesn't negate the fact that shit isn't together yet.

It's good to have resources, but such a situation is still weakness. Only I think NATO in some sense is a contributing factor, and EU frankly too, both not in the least because of all those veto and consensus rules.