Sunday, November 25th, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,654
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Re: How far do you think the European Union should expand?
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Originally Posted by Monolith
Yes, I've read about that too, and came to a very similar conclusion. But I had no idea that the overall state of the military through EU countries is bad. I always had an impression that some countries(namely France, UK, Germany) have pretty strong and well equipped armies?
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And plenty of alien [non-federated] integrated troops in their "legions", as it also happened in the late Roman Empire.
Recently there have been some voices here from the military warning about the unreal probability that those foreigners set themselves to defend the country in the event that it was needed.
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