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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by vardump on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:23AM (#18912282)
Yeah. Remove EU and I'm sure Russia will be happy to take over your little countries.

Individually European countries are pretty weak. They're only strong as a common entity.

Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by lbj on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:25AM (#18912302)
Pretty sure NATO would survive the dismantling of some bureaucracy.
Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by msla on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:24PM (#18912875)
> Pretty sure NATO would survive the dismantling of some bureaucracy.

Then that's the next Brexit target, innit? Gin up some "grassroots" support for leaving that Mean Nasty NATO What Is Bad And Mean and just never you mind that the original talking points were translated from the Russian.

We know the Russians are working to dismantle everything on the European continent which could counterbalance their ambitions. NATO isn't any more immune than the EU is.

Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by Ralfp on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:44PM (#18913105)
NATO is military pact. EU has economic advantages for member states like single market and trade union (so you can't create trade agreement in WTO sense with single EU member).
Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by kazen44 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:12PM (#18913392)
Also, the EU has a common defence clause aswell, so all EU member states are practically under the same defence umberella, even if they aren't into NATO.
Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by raverbashing on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:22PM (#18912857)
Will it? Trump is already discussing how to step down

Divide and conquer, one of the oldest strategies. Yes, I'm sure "countries can defend themselves alone" yup, right

Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by Matticus_Rex on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:15PM (#18916632)
The EU is not the only thing keeping Europe from being deaf and blind, and Russia has much better targets than most of the EU if it was going to take expansion risks. This is needless fearmongering.
Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by ahallock on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:44PM (#18914249)
Not sure why you can't have an alliance among smaller countries without all the regulations. It seems orthogonal to me.
Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by morsma on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:35AM (#18912381)
Why on earth would Russia want to take over Denmark?
Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by Spacemolte on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:15PM (#18912785)
Why do any country want to invade other countries?
Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by lbj on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:43AM (#18912443)
I think they're after our excess cinnamon