• felis_catus_domesticus@toot.io
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    5 hours ago

    @LaFinlandia well, that’s been true since 1949…

    it’s only the Europeans who are suddenly waking up this. DE have been underperforming NATO slackers since day 1.
    Now the chickens come home to roost.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      To be fair, it really looked like we were about to achieve world peace like 15 years ago. EU didn’t expect russia to start a war etc… In my region they minimized the military over and over, as it seemed we had no enemies.