Die Geschichte wird nicht auf die Einstimmigkeit Europas warten – Bei einer Europäischen Verteidigungsunion geht es um Glaubwürdigkeit, Abschreckung und Handlungsfähigkeit
https://timesofmalta.com/article/history-wait-europe-unanimity.1122426
Von goldstarflag
15 Kommentare
Europe’s unity moves slower than history’s deadlines.
We needed removal of unanimity in 2014.
Now we need institutional figures that can act decisively and be help publicly accountable.
So we‘ re now 2 steps behind.
*What we are seeing is a system doing exactly what it was designed to do. Unanimity guarantees the lowest common denominator.*
The concept of unanimity is obsolete. We need a more federal Europe. A federation consists of many nations and ethnicities. Like India and China. Local competences must go down to the regions but defense, security and trade policy should become full EU competences.
People just should watch Ukraine war footage, and understand that if they won’t do something faster- their families would be doing the same, as main characters in lead.
The rest of Europe should use the money they send to NATO, to Germany, France, and the UK to provide the defence. They would well together
Europes population: 700 million
US population: 350 million
Yea it’s time for Europe to step up, it’s embarrassing many can’t even get to 2% NATO minimums let alone 5% where it should be.
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While I agree wit the article, Europe is still too fractured to be anything unified much less quickly unified. Add to that that we have staggering generational issues that had been pushed / kicked down the road onto other generations, we are now in the „fuck around and find out“ or „time to pay the piper“ age.
France has had decades of American Boomer style retirement and funding issues, while Germany kept focusing on their biggest industries for too long instead of diversifying. Same with all other major players such as Spain, Italy, and even Greece.
Add uncontrolled immigration that has allowed a select few cause massive trouble and thus overshadow all immigrants, and we have as many internal problems as we have external problems. In a perfect scenario we should have a unified front against Russia and US – Greenland problems. But while the western nations can send troops to Greenland, Poland and the eastern states must have their eye on the Russian issue more so than Greenland.
Us constantly pointing fingers as „single issue voters“ is also not helping. We must accept that there are a myriad of problems that all need to be addressed „somehow and right now“.
We are doing the best we can with the bad hand we were given by our predecessors that we did in fact vote into office.
Look, if Trump tries to cease Greenland (which is not a move that has either popular or establishment support in the US, even in conservative circles, it’s his little pet project) it’s going to happen in the next couple of years. Any successor (even Vance) knows it’s stupid and won’t go ahead with it.
If Europe wants to dissuade him from doing that, it needs to happen in the next weeks to months, way quicker than a European defence union (beyond the existing EU mechanisms) could be achieved even at the quickest pace.
Individual European countries need to deploy assets (naval, aerial, ground) now and keep them on rotation for the next years, plus we need an active intelligence focus on any suspicious US military activity in Greenland itself (Pituffik) and in possible staging grounds.
We cannot defend Greenland against a determined US invasion, but we can make the whole affair so politically costly that even Trump realised it’s not worth it.
VERY good article. Read it guys
Absolutely ! It is all that, certainly…. but it is also about preserving cultures, histories, values, traditions and our way of life.
Yes, but only without Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and other such pro-Russian shitholes please!
Honestly, the Greenland invasion is unlikely to happen. There is significant pushback against it. However, as a Russian experiment, it has been a great success. It just showed that Europe is too fragmented to even collectively agree on defending an ally if it doesn’t affect them. Poland is always asking for support, yet as soon as it is another country, they don’t want to send anyone. The same goes for Italy. Putin just proved that if the US leaves, they can probably take the Balkans and fight maybe half of Europe instead of all of it.
haha .. you currently have three „problematic“/traitorous allies in Hungary, Slovakia, and most recently, Poland.
And more probably ready to bend the knee and kiss the ring.
Unless the countries have a common history, language, and culture… good luck
Our main threats are immediate (USA seizing Greenland) to few years away (Russia attacking NATO/EU)
Capacity is a more pressing concern than bureaucracy. We should gear up as much as we can, ASAP, rather than lose ourselves in endless talks about an overarching European milotary structure that would require the same investments to work out, anyways. EU-„NATO“ comes afterwards.
Some countries understand this, already, some don’t.