European Army Petition

Are you referring to that time when allies asked Poland not to mobilise the army to avoid provoking Hitler, so Poland did not mobilise... And Hitler did not attack, instead they all smiled and danced together and 1939 is remembered as a year when diplomacy prevailed! /S

Or the one when Ukraine handed over their nuclear weapons to Russia and in exchange Russia agreed to never attack them

Or to Switzerland that is neutral in every conflict. Has only 9 million citizens but 100 000 soldiers in active duty, 50 000 in reserve and more than half million civilians with army training. They also had explosives under every bridge, and a lot of weapon stashes all over the country, just in case.

It implies that when you are strong, people are afraid to attack you.

What's ignorant about it?

"be put on war footing"... By having an army? Did you ever heard that old saying "if you want peace, prepare for war."?

~~This is ridiculous and quite sad. Volt, the people behind this initiative, quite often strongly underscoring their european mind and approach, but fail to use the official tools for their petition.~~

~~They could address the commission *and* the parliament. Hint one and two.~~

Edit: Okay, fair enough, they try to influence the European Council. As far as I know this institution has no official interface where citizens can interfere.

Literally on a US-based platform. :(

Not my Petition. I agree that it could have been better But this is the only big one we have

The EU has a petition system, this is not it. If you wanna do a petition like this then use the system that already exists and not some shitty third party site

Imperialism

do

not

need

more

competitors

It need to be stopped as a whole