Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Valmy]

I was kind of shock that the one (!) destroyer (!) supposed to defend Cyprus has just now left the docks after a week of "we are sending it to defend Cyprus"

Like, whatever happened to the Royal Navy? It's one Destroyer FFS

welcome to Europe, the continent that once ruled the world and then castrated itself.

It's not too late.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

true, the night is darkest before dawn...

[Jacob]

Military Rated (a youtube channel) has these stats on EU military buildup:





Back of napkin math puts that at around 500 billion Euro worth of backlog orders. That seems to be a reasonable economic basis to expand industrial capacity on.

It's from this video:

The guy's a bit of a EU booster in his narrative. I don't know how much of it is unwarranted optimism, but it's a nice antidote to the usual "Europe cannot and isn't doing anything, we/they suck" attitude that's so common these days.