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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by tough on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:27PM (#31169495)
Because the EU in itself is a pact of no agression between european countries?

Before that it was a fuckfest, name a country in Europe who hasn't been invaded at some point in time by a neighbouring state

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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by throwaway894345 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:19PM (#31170262)
You missed the point. How do you know that it was membership in the EU and not membership in NATO that deterred aggression? NATO predates the EU by a long time and there hasn't been war between NATO members or military aggression by a non-NATO European country against a NATO European country. A non-aggression pact without NATO enforcement is easily broken.
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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by akoncius on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:08PM (#31173198)
I’m not OP, but I will offer my point of view:

NATO is only defence in military sense from external threats.

Internal relationships are much broader: trade, laws, internal politics, multi-country alignment towards same goals, even goal definition etc. there is european parliament where representatives from all member countries gather and discuss a lot of different topics. none of that provides NATO.

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