Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Denmark Votes to Join EU Defence Policy - TLDR News" video.

  1. What we are seeing thanks to Putin is how well the invasion in Ukraine is backfiring on Putin, it's pushing more countries towards the EU and NATO, there's real talk about more integration in the EU and military spending is going up, it's basically doing the opposite of what Putin wanted and it's clear that Putin didn't do his homework on how things would pan out. As for the EU, I suspect its members are going to integrate one way or the other even if we don't want it, and mostly because of the reality of the changing world, Putin's war in Ukraine is a wake-up call for Europeans but the reality is, a rising China on the world stage and a continuing growing US is pushing us Europeans to get closer together if we want to protect our political, economic and social interest, in other words, if we don't stand together, we're going to find it more difficult to protect our interest and I suspect it will take a few cases of that weakness being shown to really be the wake-up call for Europeans, something many countries really need. Personally, I don't have an issue with further integration as long as it's done right but I do feel the EU needs to engage more with the European people in the EU, I also think more reforms are needed, especially on the Commission which I think should be merged with the EU President and be directly elected, I also think the European Parliament should be given more powers, basically, its high time the EU starts cutting out a lot of the excuses that Eurosceptics keep coming out with and not feeding them which is more or less what the current EU does.
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  2. Yep, that will happen with further integration in the EU and all it will take is the US or China to abuse its position by trying to divide European countries with the aim of making them weaker for their own ends, it's just a matter of when other big powers try to take advantage of the division.
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