Parsa / EPA-eFE / Rex / ShutterStock“It is certainly one way to focus our minds – and wallets! Donald Trump makes us a favor, if Let’s decide to think about it. And we can look at the bright side. Otherwise, these times are too dark. “
The words of the Diplomat from the main European country, saying after Donald Trump excluded military aid on Monday in Ukraine. He asked him not to be appointed, so he can share his thoughts freely.
Undemployment and pace of change in Washington, can be dizzying. Not only for consumers news, but also a politician.
Europe is indicated effectively responding.
There were free activities: bilateral, late-night leader, European Huddles in London and in Paris, NATO defense ministers in Brussels. The summit for the emergency security of the EU leader is also scheduled on Thursday.
It is a huge moment in European history.
Most European countries believe in the security of the entire Europe, not only the sovereignty of Ukraine, in question – with Russia, which wants to dismantle the balance of Westerners to the west, in place from the end of the Cold War.
Washington, who had a return to Europe in terms of security and defense, is now “not to take care of the fate of Europe”, the man who was the next leader of the largest continent economy, Friedrich Merz from Germany.
But what are all European meetings and summit that provide great names actually achieves?
Just a couple of hours before Washington stops Military Aid KievPrime Minister of Great Britain Sir Keir Starmer, who runs lead in Europe through Ukraine, announced that time for “actions not words”. The President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen said, said that Europe must convert Ukraine to “Steel Pucupine”, with an emergency, additional weapon delivery.
Can a continent really act like one? Europe is the sum of different countries with different budgets and diverse domestic politics and priorities.
Well MediaThe aim of Europe in carrying out this defense action is twice:
First, show Donald Trump that the Prime Minister of UK will now make “heavy lifting” to defend himself. Europe hopes to persuade Trump to restart the military support of Ukraine and maintain the current American security security security security security security security security security security security signal as a whole, if it believes no longer “freloucati” out of the United States.
But both in European leaders will need to urgently strengthen their own defense and support of Kiev, if Donald Trump turns away from Ukraine, and further in the line, from Europe in the Security terms.
Not only in Washington that Europe feels that it makes sense to prove.
Russia is also watching.
Various high profile, European meetings for large plans, now must produce fast, impressive, practical results, otherwise in the chrymy eyes, Europe seems weak and vulnerable.
Moscow has already stopped “separations” see in western unity.
Donald Trump says he trusts Vladimir Putin, but he did not flourish on NATO allies and invited Ukrainian President Dictator.
Russia knows that, for all Europeans, they are now decisively defending, every security expert that you say to admit that – at least in the short term – Europe still needed now.
That is why we saw French President and Prime Ministers in the UK in Washington last week, separately, Wooling Donald Trump.
The United States has met yawned blanks in European defense, left by years of chronic insufficient investment after the end of the Cold War.
The number of soldiers in Europe decreased with the end of the recruits in most European countries. The United States has approximately 100,000 soldiers and nuclear weapons in various parts of Europe under NATO’s nuclear policy exchange policy. Many of them are in non-nuclear, main European energy Germany, which is feared seriously exposed to Russia, should Donald Trump withdraw support.
If the UK and France manage to compile what they call the “coalition of willing” – European countries to send even a modest number of peace troops in Ukraine after agreeing on the ceasefire and exhibit gaps in the NATO defense.
That is why Poland does not want to commit troops in that “coalition”. He says he needs to keep soldiers at home, to defend himself against Russia. It is also a colorful garden hopes that now will not extract their troops from Eastern Europe.
But Europe relies on the United States for military opportunities that ensure unobstructed management of operations. They are known as “enablers”.
Ukraine leaned up on American intelligence, for example, to maintain a strong hand against Russia.
The European power of peace or “persuasion” in Ukraine should support us to establish an air shield over Ukraine. Europe lacks the ability to fill air for air, as well as ammunitions that could extract air defenses in Russia if necessary.
These teams “cannot be purchased in a hurry at local cash” as one European politician said to me.
That is why the United Kingdom, France and others in Europe are so willing to keep us now on board for as long and as much as possible.
“Some of my esteemed European colleagues should probably be kept from Tweets in anger,” said a frustrated diplomat from the high-propelled nation.
We talked about it European rage on the treatment of President of Ukraine by the US President and Vice-President on Friday in Oval Office on Friday.
“The right lead is not about releasing money online. It is finding the right words for constructive forward movement, however, complicated the situation.
“Do we need a continuation of support in Ukraine and Europe? Do we have more common with the US but with China? These are the basic issues we need to keep in mind.”
The second fundamental issue for Europe is, of course, how much money is needed and how fast for the cropped defense.
In Ukraine, Europe could easily easily replace current US support, if it is bothered.
Germany is the largest donor of military aid in Ukraine after the US. If other European powers followed her leadership, he says, Ukraine would be covered with the foreseeable future.
Berlin and other Northern European countries are expressing outrage against France, for example, who say, are discussed with the big debate of Ukraine – and strong is in leadership and strategy – but in fact it donated relatively a little bit.
As for the broader defense consumption, the EU Commission’s head of the Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday that “Europe is at the time of the pre-GRUME”.
She suggested that the EU itself could mobilize a total of 800 billion euros for defense consumption:
- Use your shared budget creative
- Enabling 150 billion euros in loans to use the EU defense as a whole – thus, for example, in air and rocket defense, anti-drone systems and military mobility
- Suspending Fiscal Rules of the EU to enable individual EU countries to spend more on defense
EU leaders will discuss their proposals and others at their summit on Thursday – including whether to use frozen Russian property in Europe in financing for Ukraine.
But potential and very public European parts darkened fracture. Many have encouraged domestic policy policies.
Hungary, the proximity of Russia and the Administration Donald Trump, speaks in a circle quite any debate on the EU to help Ukraine. Brussels fears from Slovakia goes the same way.
Countries near Russia’s borders do not need to explain voters why defense consumption should be high. Tiny, exposed Baltic nations Estonia and Lithuania already consumes over 3% of the Defense GDP. They want to collect it to 5% in the near future.
Meanwhile, large European economy Italy and Spain, geographically much further from Russia, do not spend a minimum requirement of 2% of GDP on the defense.
In Germany, France and the UK, according to the study in the London Research Group of Focaldat, most voters want to maintain or reduce the consumption of the defense, preferring its government to focus on other voter priorities.
But NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warns that Europeans wake up and smells of beer coffee in Washington and Moscow.
European nations must spend more than 3% of GDP now to effectively take the continent from the deep reliance on the US, he says.
If Donald Trump completely pulls out, it has nothing to do in Ukraine, it would mean that he spent 4-6% of GDP, according to important experts: political, social and economic earthquake leaders who will not face.
2025-03-05 00:01:00
