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>your fantasies about how EU would devolve to internal conflict over a shared military force.
Never said that. I said that a European army would be inherently disorganized because it would be an amalgam of three dozen distinct nation states with different languages, geography, objectives, doctrines, etc. People ITT are ragging on France for being difficult in fighter programs. France controls places like New Caledonia, which accounts for 20-25% of the world's nickel in a given year, but it on the opposite side of the planet. It naturally needs to be able to field something capable of carrying nuclear weapons and using a CATOBAR system. Germany, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Sweden, and most other nations of Europe do not have similar priorities. Likewise, a place like Sweden has an inordinate amount of coastline to defend for a country of its population. It has to develop native solutions for this that won't make as much sense for France or Portugal. These sorta of things result in fights over procurement, doctrine, and training, which makes a single army a single army.