Comments by "HesteBremse" (@HesteBremse) on "The End of the Internet… Death by Article 13 Law" video.

  1. Jumping to the second part and the issue of a European Army – As such I do not think that this was a real "hot" idea within the EU in general, even that it must have to come to the table as a consideration on various future scenario debates regarding EU geopolitical role in the world. What has put more fuel on that idea is the paradigm shift that has happened with the Trump policy direction and the USA pulling towards itself and the EU in general not liking that move. And yes you are right ColdFusion – nothing really great has ever come out of to much centralized power in general. I am really not for War effort at all – but as a European, I must, in fact, consider this subject due to the US relationship becoming shakier. Europe sits in the middle of a lot – anyone ever played "Risk" knows that holding Europe is very difficult. So if the US cannot any longer be generally trusted as a solid ally (and or the US could say the same about Europe) then Europe must act in one way or another. Creating much better trade with Russia and the nearby east regions should be a very high priority since that trade is a much better solution than any war (The conflicts in Ukrainer later years has properly given a strong hint to the challenges, with also USA interfering). Never the less a coordinated EU army will stand stronger than single country individual armies. The problem is of course that a single EU coordinated or lead Army can be used offensively and thereby become yet another world bully or simply put abused for other purposes than the actual mission of having a strong defense. Another problem that might arise from it could be a conflict of Military sales interest – currently, nearly all European countries are producing or sub producing military equipment – but that includes sub production for many US military productions – this includes Artillery, special parts for the F-35´s program and many more. With an EU Army under one command and a weakened relationship to the US, surely certain productions would not be prolonged after their contracts end and then we got the mess of Military technology agreements, "copyrights" sales competition (which is already but would properly become much more openly and fierce). That all points in not so good directions asking for Trouble. But for me as a simple European citizen ( I do not live in my European country of birth but in a neighbor EU country), surely I would also not like to see neither Russia or any another military power even consider taking offensive action against Europe - So this leaves me in a real dilemma – Want a strong European Defense in case that US keep contracting as an Ally, at the cost of problems arising from centralized military and European military productions. With Brexit upcoming and the right-wing movement of divide seaming not to disappear anytime soon, much more of Europe could again become scattered – that leaves individual countries vulnerable to outside aggression and perhaps even very hostile military maneuvres in the weaker east EU member countries. If that happens who is going to do something about it if the might of the US military is not there to back it up?.
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