Of course I think it’s relevant, what I don’t understand is how the EU needs the UK more tha vice versa when the EU is bringing more to the table (including in terms of naval capacity)

It’s far too old a practice to be that

“Quietly” as in it’s being done with far fewer bombs and bullets than Gaza

So why bring up the navy in this context?

This is a somewhat common practice in headlines (in English, at least), but would not be used in normal writing. It’s similar to how headlines almost never use the word “and”, instead replacing it with a comma. If I go to Reuters’ website just now I can quite quickly find headlines about “UK rocket maker Orbex”, “South Korea crypto exchange”, and “Argentina unions”.

That said, there are also a lot of headlines (including on Reuters) that don’t do this, and I have no idea what decides when it is or isn’t applied. I can just reassure you that no, this is not you misunderstanding English, it’s just a weird convention for news headlines specifically

We have the biggest individual navy in Europe (excluding Russia, but… well we’ve seen how that has been faring), but we do not have a bigger navy than the EU together. If there is some naval threat that the EU cannot handle, we are in an even worse position to try to face it alone. If we’re operating on might is right logic then we absolutely need the EU, because we aren’t competing with heavyweights like the US and China alone

The second-biggest cryptocurrency split in two becaue some people just decided to undo transactions. The transactions were absolutely theft, but the point is that some people just decided to change what the ledger said.

I got a lovely reply with the lyrics:

Why do I feel so sad

When people all around me look so glad

Why is my heart breaking in two

When I look at a friend such as you

You always tell me you’re so happy

You’ve really got it made in this life

And although the world was against you

You managed to make it on your own

Not yet! But it is a Sunday, so I wouldn’t necessarily expect one right away. I will be sure to update you if I do get one!

Not a bad call actually. I will try that tomorrow

“The EU was created in 1993. There were no wars in Europe since ww2 until then. Draw your own conclusions”

okay lmao

Your feeble downvoting of all my comments is fucking hilarious mate

I’m downvoting you for lying and being a dickhead. I can also see you upvoting your own comments. Is there a bit of insecurity about upvotes there, maybe?

Whether you actually believe it or not, you’re arguing strenuously for it to advance your political position. It doesn’t really matter if it’s genuine, the effect is the same

Also I’ve seen enough of your comments elsewhere to know that you hate the EU enough that it’s a plausible position for you to try to take

This is the most comically disingenuous thing I have ever seen. “Draw your own conclusions” fuckin sure lmao

Maybe look at the date it took effect and actually formed the EU

Also, to quote a mysterious someone from further up the thread: “The EU was created in 1993.”

I really hope you can recognise that 1992 is actually before 1993

So, in other words, when you said, “There were no wars in Europe since ww2 until [1993]”, you were in fact completely talking out your arse

Right, so you’re just objectively wrong and also the genocide conviction is indeed irrelevant.

• Hungarian revolution: USSR invaded Hungary
• Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Turkiye invaded Cyprus
• Transnistria war: Russia invaded Moldova

And to counter that, you’re bringing up an example that also started before the EU was made

…okay? How is that relevant to your claim of there being no wars in Europe from 1945 to 1993?

Oh that’s clever. I hope it lives up to the claimed cost savings, because if it does it’s much more likely to see rapid adoption

Okay so if we take your definition in which a civil war isn’t a war: when the Soviet Union rolled tens of thousands of troops with tanks into Hungary, or when Turkey invaded Cyprus and made a new country out of a third of it, or when Russia put 14,000 troops in Moldova and made a new country out of the bit north of the Dniester, what exactly made those not international in your view?

How many countries were involved in Bosnia

At least three depending on what you count as a country. Again, given that it started before the EU existed, why are you saying that no wars happened between the end of WWII and the creation of the EU?

when was the first international genocide conviction in Europe since the Nuremberg trials?

2007. What does that have to do with anything?