Childish view. Diplomacy means a negotiation. Strongmen don’t negotiate with countries they can crush militarily.
A strong European defence is the only way to ensure Europe remains in a diplomatic position
Plus the whole point of increased military spending is that once potential aggressors see your impressive military and become more likely to decide not to attack you. You buy weapons to not need to use them. The only danger is the risk of becoming America, feeling the need to justify the expenditure by starting wars. But that risk is not inevitable.
What diplomacy does the pope recommend towards an aggressor that only understands violence? Also, does he recognize Russia’s aggression on Ukraine, or is he still pretending nothing happened?
Everyone remember how we beat Hitler by unilaterally disarming, linking arms and singing Kum-Ba-Ya until he was shamed out of his warmongering ways?
You can’t be diplomatic when a powerful madman wants to take all of your things. You have to act. Reason does not work in unreasonable situations.
I would argue you can ONLY be diplomatic if you are in a position to defend yourself from an enemy. Nobody is going to negotiate with a non-threat
DA pope is wrong here.
Pope already jumping the shark?
Switzerland is one of the most militarized countries where all citizens, male citizens that is, are required to complete a term of service and can be called up in times of war. They haven’t been invaded since Napoleon Bonaparte and have not declared war either. The Vatican is happy to hire the Swiss guard, actual members of the Swiss military, to guard them and despite what Swiss companies like Nestlé do they are generally neutral and open to trade with all countries, all while having the most nuclear bunkers, and defensive posts for any country, with the possible exception of Romania, I believe, who didn’t plan them out and built them everywhere to prevent Soviet invasion from Russia. Switzerland is peaceful because France, Germany, Austria, and Italy were disincentivized militarily from invasion due to the cost to reward ratio, Czechoslovakia on the other hand was invaded by Nazi germany because they were forced to be neutral and were forced to give up their military defenses to Nazi germany. There is a difference between a military spending increase by a country for defensive reasons (usually more Democratic nations) and being a belligerent nation, who when it is an autocracy tends not to increase military spending much until they absolutely need to (such as Nazi military spending didn’t increase by much until 1944, and not in 1938-1939 when they were planning for war as the spending increases were put in place under Hindenburg’s presidency when they were still a republic).
Stay in your lane, Leo.
To all those saying this is a childish view, what do you expect him to say? That that God suddenly is okay with more bombs?
I know this seems wild living in the age of the US president communicating on a twitter clone while on the shitter, but one actually doesnt have to say every single thought out loud, being quiet is actually an option … shocker right?
