>>507350319If Europe was one state at least the military would be significantly better. Now every country has to spend 2% of GDP on defense budget but what can yhru afford with it? Maybe air force for one country or huge tank army for another, maybe just rifles for the smallest countries.
But 2% spent individually on every country can't afford Europe defense against high orbit ICBMs. My country has 60 fighter jets but Russia could destroy us with 1 missile and we wouldn't even have a chance of defending against it. As far as I know even UK or France don't have defenses like that.
If it was spent wisely then money from Norway, UK, France, Portugal, Spain etc could be earmarked for building a huge navy while the inner countries like Sweden, Denmark and Croatia could focus their money on the air force.
Now every country just buys a little of something for themselves and the whole continent ends up having fractured and weak military.