My good sir, we Europeans have had a Grand Design in fixing problems by pretending to solve them.
Whether it is solving the post World War 1 European balance of power, reform the Soviet economy past 1953 or creating long-standing institutions that bring all ethnic groups together in Yugoslavia, it is our God given task as Europeans to most loudly proclaim the things we really don’t want to do and use an immense amount of resources to *underlay*, nay, even **emphasize** how loud we can be in this.
Why change something that has worked so well thus far?
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>Italy has its own defence-washing plans in mind, arguing that measures relating to economic competitiveness—itself a nebulous concept—should also be thought of as somehow part of its defence efforts. But why stop there? With a bit more creativity, even larger slices of government outlay could be re-imagined as part of this expanded security budget. Since a citizen in ill-health can hardly be expected to serve in the armed forces, surely public hospitals should be included as defence spending too? Soldiers need to be able to read, and travel to military bases; including the education and transport budgets as a subset of the military makes perfect sense. The list is just about endless.
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…so it’s just going to pretend to, isn’t it?
My good sir, we Europeans have had a Grand Design in fixing problems by pretending to solve them.
Whether it is solving the post World War 1 European balance of power, reform the Soviet economy past 1953 or creating long-standing institutions that bring all ethnic groups together in Yugoslavia, it is our God given task as Europeans to most loudly proclaim the things we really don’t want to do and use an immense amount of resources to *underlay*, nay, even **emphasize** how loud we can be in this.
Why change something that has worked so well thus far?
>Italy has its own defence-washing plans in mind, arguing that measures relating to economic competitiveness—itself a nebulous concept—should also be thought of as somehow part of its defence efforts. But why stop there? With a bit more creativity, even larger slices of government outlay could be re-imagined as part of this expanded security budget. Since a citizen in ill-health can hardly be expected to serve in the armed forces, surely public hospitals should be included as defence spending too? Soldiers need to be able to read, and travel to military bases; including the education and transport budgets as a subset of the military makes perfect sense. The list is just about endless.
I’m going to become the joker
https://preview.redd.it/p4hzlcvg2pqe1.jpeg?width=962&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eb57dc88f3cf7b596e7561027db84c9ea45f092
Maybe people should consult this chart before they start mindlessly shitting on THEIR OWN ALLIES again.