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Europe must get ready for looming war, Donald Tusk warns
(www.theguardian.com)
A better Donald T?
You know it used to be that when I heard the name "Donald" I thought of a Disney character. Does anyone even remember that guy?
Canonically, he's a socialist war vet with PTSD. He's constantly telling off scrooge in the comics.
Went around naked from the waist down, right?
Happier times!
That's damning with faint praise if I ever saw it 😄
The real Donald T.
All the other Donald T. s are just imitating
Won't the real Donald T....please leave immediately, and fall off the face of the earth
He is the Republican elephant.
Just the tusk
These war mongers instantly getting the billions that supposedly never existed for climate change.
Confused why you think security from being invaded should be tied to climate change?
you're both making valid points - but I think Linker's point was that "we simply don't have the money to fight climate change" loses a bit of credibility when it suddenly appears to fight the bogeyman.
Fighting climate change takes systemic change, as to truly solve it we need to do away with extractive capitalism. Turning on the money taps to fund the military industry fits neatly within the current system.
Not confused.
Many European countries have reduced their military spending because of the tax-wallet, and Tusk is right to increase it.
Yet, the bigger threat of losing livable planet is still in a negotiation phase when it comes to funding; projects that will need to be paid by the ( inescapable ) the tax-wallet.
Climate change is also an imminent emergency. The conparison is apt. Funding was always the problem. If it was cheaper or same cost to be green, everyone already would be. Both are a threat. It just happens that a threat involving enrichment of entrenched companies in the military industrial complex is easier to approve than those portrayed as tree hugging hippies.
The military is pretty damn green for what they do, at least here in the USA. We also get a lot of innovation from military spending, not just on the green front but medical as well. Wars are about as anti-green as it gets so ignoring one that could potentially cause major issues, seems the opposite of what you want to be doing.
Between climate change being posed to create chaos, Russia trying to recreate the USSR, and capitalism doing capitalism things, I don't know if he's actually wrong. 😔
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, says Europe is entering a “prewar” era, cautioning that the continent is not ready and urging European countries to step up defence investment.
In an interview with a group of European newspapers reported by the BBC, Tusk said: “I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past.
Tusk’s comments came days after a Russian missile briefly breached Polish airspace during a major attack on Ukraine, prompting Warsaw to put its forces on heightened readiness.
The Polish prime minister said that regardless of the outcome of the US election this year, Europe would become a more attractive partner for Washington if it became more self-sufficient militarily.
In his comments this week, Tusk underscored the importance of cooperation between Poland, Germany and France, a format known as the Weimar Triangle.
“Even the closest of friends have conflicting interests and viewpoints at times,” the Polish leader said in a press conference this week alongside his Ukrainian counterpart.
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