Will EU nation really launch operation Barbarossa-2
to save Ukraine ?
They plan their troops to Ukraine.
They plan their troops to Ukraine.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
The EU is not a military alliance.
The EU does not have an EU army, navy or air-force.
The EU is not a single nation.
It is a collection of most though not all of the continents of Europe's separate nations; of whom most are NATO members, and it would be their own governments who decide what if any of their own nation's Armed Forces to send anywhere.
So to answer the question.... it could not do anything of the sort. Though it would no doubt regard the metaphor as offensive.
The EU does not have an EU army, navy or air-force.
The EU is not a single nation.
It is a collection of most though not all of the continents of Europe's separate nations; of whom most are NATO members, and it would be their own governments who decide what if any of their own nation's Armed Forces to send anywhere.
So to answer the question.... it could not do anything of the sort. Though it would no doubt regard the metaphor as offensive.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@dubum The EU itself is political and economic but its member-nations are also military allies.
Although the European Union has no armed forces under the blue-and-stars flag, it will do everything it can on the politics of the situation, but also does foster that military friendship.
Donald Trump is inconsisten to the point of being confusing. He seems genuinely to want an end to the war in Ukraine, and the fighting in the Middle East, but how and on what terms seem to keep changing.
Meanwhile Russia is keeping up its campaign. Yesterday its Army launched a missile against a hotle, killing four people. A Royal Navy ship has just spent three days shadowing a Russian vessel accompanied by a corvette on their way up the English Channel, carrying arms loaded in a Russian-owned port in Syria. (That's a long way round for the Russians...)
Although the European Union has no armed forces under the blue-and-stars flag, it will do everything it can on the politics of the situation, but also does foster that military friendship.
Donald Trump is inconsisten to the point of being confusing. He seems genuinely to want an end to the war in Ukraine, and the fighting in the Middle East, but how and on what terms seem to keep changing.
Meanwhile Russia is keeping up its campaign. Yesterday its Army launched a missile against a hotle, killing four people. A Royal Navy ship has just spent three days shadowing a Russian vessel accompanied by a corvette on their way up the English Channel, carrying arms loaded in a Russian-owned port in Syria. (That's a long way round for the Russians...)
