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you don't have a military

The only leftist ideology that advocates against an active military is anarchism. Anarchists prefer spontaneous militias that activate as soon as another state acts on them. Obviously there are downsides to this practice as 1) gathering up a militia and organizing them can take time away from defending against outside oppressors, which can jeopardize defense in general, and 2) gathering up a militia of normal folk in a society means they won't be actively trained in conducting warfare effectively, or at least not as much as another state that does have an active military - this also represents a lower hand which can again jeopardize defense in general.

Marxist-Leninist communists believe that an active military that trains its population and performs drills regularly is the most suitable defense against capitalist states, since they have their own military doing the same.

Oh yeah and we know they totally stopped after WW2, yup no neocolonialism or backing foreign military occupations. Just look at how Europe is treating the Palestinian occupation, they sent them unlimited weapons very strongly as an act of condemnation. Look their feelings are hurt and that's close enough to real action.

No but its in northern Africa and the Middle East, I have been to Palestine personally. Those starving children don't care that a couple of EU members have strongly worded statements when the weapons flow freely.

I don't care what eurolibs have to say, their actions speak significantly louder

Tell that to the person being "unapologetically socialist" whom I responded to.

Anarchists can't even organize a voting bloc or a civil sector, and they think a militia will spontaneously activate when needed? Oh please.

For the record, I am somewhere on the left of the spectrum. I believe both social democracy and democratic socialism have their merits. I'm definitely not an ML, for various reasons including I believe they're too authoritarian and I find them insufferable.

But I also believe that modern social democracies such as are found in western and northern Europe have societies and ways of life that are worth defending, even if that means fighting for them. With the threat looming to the east, I find it imperative for Europe to fund a strong military coalition/alliance.

Still 2 vs 1.

https://fiveable.me/key-terms/ap-psych-revised/authoritarian-figures

Having authority over most of the subjects means being an authoritarian figure amongst those subjects. How much of an authoritarian a leader is, is another question. When I said "authority versus people", again, I quite clearly meant voices of people versus voices of prime ministers and presidents who probably have different dealings going on.

The word "figure" plays a rather important role, as I never said "authoritarians".

European values.

That's a myth.
There may be baseline values like, dunno, humanity, other than that you can't have broad common values east to west north to south, countries are too different.

Get a grip.

Get better sources.

Really? How interesting...

It's in every room in Africa. But they're not white so the media ignores it.

Of course the very statement "in the room with us right now" clearly states the intent, that's somewhere else to people of a different skin color so clearly it doesn't matter. The average eurolib has no sympathy to the starving and oppressed of the global south.

In the past the eurolib argued that they were "civilizing" them with Christianity, that has not changed yet the justifications have (now its "women's rights", "democracy", and "human rights")

Yep, they love to just change the meanings of those words to suit themselves.

I would love for them to have more equality and protections for minorities of all kinds, but just enforcing that from our country or any other country is using political manipulation for a vague gain. If the shoe was on the other foot, they'd scream about election interference.

Well I would also love that too but butchering women wont make them more free, bombing hospitals doesn't increase the sanctity of human life, burning children alive with Incendiary weapons wont teach them to love the west, installing dictators wont make them more democratic, and funding brutal civil wars doesn't make minorities safer.

Eurolibs will insist only Americans did this but the records don't lie, the EU was a participant and Eurolibs supported it

I honestly don't know how you can think Volt would support Trump's illegal invasion of anything. Let me break it down piece by piece.

You call Volt centrist, others call it radical. Volt may not be a traditional socialist or liberal party, but they are definitely not centrist on:

• opposing fascism
• regulating big tech, big agri and big oil
• universal basic income
• making innovative startups succeed in Europe
• any progressive/conservative issues really
• making Europe strong and independent

Volt oppose the current increase in military spending, instead wanting a single big European Army instead of 27 small ones. Overall military spending in Europe was already OK, the reason we are not as strong as the US militarily is because 27 small armies are not the same as one big army.

I don't know what your opinion on these topics is, but it seems evident to me that in order to stand up against the USA, Russia and China, we need to have a military deterrent. If you consider that, or supporting Ukraine, militaristic, then I don't mind you calling me militaristic.

Volt has always opposed fascism in all its forms. AfD, Netanyahu, Trump, US Big Tech influence in Europe, etc. They will never support Trump illegally invading a sovereign country.