Will the European Defense Union be? (Writes Boris Zala)

28. Mar 2025 at 10:16

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The author is a philosopher and former Member of the European Parliament

Well, the unprecedented « European » determination has been launched to take its defense and security fate into their own hands. Because the fact is that in this area the EU was still only the province of the US.

It must be said that in this position she was hooked as the legendary peaceful Venus, and the role of military, strength and deterrent left in the hands of the God of War of Mars: As seen by Europe and the US theoreticians of American politics twenty years ago.

Emmanuel Macron He was undoubtedly the first after the disintegration of the bipolar divided world, who in full seriousness placed the need for « European autonomy » or sovereignty on the EU negotiations. And he was clearly referring to the autonomy of the US strategic interests that had no illusions about the Frenchman, which increasingly proved to be different from the European ones.

American-European duo: temporary and half-time

However, EU leaders until the open war Russia against Ukraine They took this initiative before showing a young French Presidentwho somehow wants to resemble de Gaulle.

In addition, the Russian attack on Ukraine was triggered at the time of Biden’s presidency who, in opposition to Trump, tried to renew American-European cooperation-and so Putin’s answer was almost moving united. Although I note on the edge that absolutely insufficient.

The consensus was not only in how to help Ukraine, but also in how not to help it: no non -flying zone (not just to defend large cities or nuclear equipment), no mass supply corridor with combat technology, predetermined restrictions on the supply of offensive types of artillery and aviation NATOno transformation into military production, etc.

Basically, neither the US nor the EU have adopted Ukrainian defiance of Russian aggression as its own defense. The only thing that the EU has done exemplary was to break away from Russian energy sources (unless I count the unlimited supply of nuclear fuel from Russia).

The American Republicans are coming

True, Macron did not only mean autonomy in the field of security, but also in the economy. His right remark that a European citizen should not be dependent on how the American voter in Pennsylvania wakes up was more concerned with the Biden’s adopted anti -conflation legislation, which had already introduced the protection of US goods at the expense of the European.

When he came up with his drastic conservation policy TrumpThe EU began to wake up. However, a cold shower was the provocative support of the far right -wing movements in Europe, which was only stated by the vice president VANCE and Trump’s mascot Elon Musk.

I guess anyone who means something in the EU has understood that American Republicans know a smaller or larger ally or an enemy exactly exactly what you can get on.

National competition geopolitics becomes dominant. And believe that it is not Trump’s boreholes, this is the worldview of the entire Republican Party – it has shifted that in the last fifteen years. In addition, controlled by the far right, religious fanatics and conspirators!

Hint of EU awakening