EU Commissioner Calls for 100-Thousand-Strong Unified Standing Defense Forces (VIDEOS)
Kubilius is actually calling for a United States of Europe – and that’s not gonna fly.
As Europe goes around in a militaristic trance, with its member countries all involved in enlarging and reequipping their military forces, an EU commissioner is making a plea that sounds rational, but it’s actually unfeasible.
European Union Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius has declared that the bloc ‘should consider’ forming a standing military force of 100,000 troops and – pay attention – ‘overhaul the political processes governing defense’.
Obsessed with their imagined ‘Russian aggression’ and with the US shifting its focus away from Europe, Kubilius wants to re-imagine Europe’s common defense.
Politico reported:
“’Would the United States be militarily stronger if they would have 50 armies on the States level instead of a single federal army’, he said at a Swedish security conference on Sunday. ‘Fifty state defense policies and defense budgets on the states level, instead of a single federal defense policy and budget? If our answer is ‘no,’ [the] USA would not be stronger, then — what are we waiting for?’”
‘If Americans shift from Europe… Who will form our European standing backbone military force?
A COLLECTION of 27 BONSAI ARMIES? Armies that look NICE?’
Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defense and Space pic.twitter.com/JWjKGwSPVC
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Kubilius wants more investment in weapons production, organized institutions and the political will to deter and fight.
It’s all very fine, but this supposes the existence of the ‘United States of Europe’, which is not the case. Individual countries will NOT give away sovereignty in defense matters to the nutcases from Brussels.
“’We need to start to invest our money in such a way, that we would be able to fight as Europe, not just as collection of 27 national ‘bonsai armies’,’ he said, borrowing a phrase from former EU High Representative Josep Borrell.
Europe could instead create — ‘as Jean-Claude Juncker, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel already proposed 10 years ago’ a powerful, standing ‘European military force’ of 100,000 troops, he said.”
EU defence chief floats 100,000 troop joint force as doubts grow over US commitment
EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius has proposed exploring a 100,000 strong standing European force that could, over time, reduce or even replace the role played by roughly 100,000 US… pic.twitter.com/CtnrgEo7HF
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