Europe will weaken NATO to support a European Union military that is only intended to promote "ever closer union" to remove the "proto" part of their still proto-empire.
This weakens the West:
France and Germany edged toward achieving a 70-year-old ambition to integrate European defenses on Monday, signing a pact with 21 other EU governments to fund, develop and deploy armed forces after Britain’s decision to quit the bloc.
If all this was about was buying weapons in larger lots to save money with volume purchases, I'd be all in favor. But it doesn't stop there.
In the best light, this is just about Europeans unwilling to spend money on defense agreeing to a pact in the hope that other Europeans will shoulder more of the burden.
Who believes that Europeans will spend more on defense rather than divert spending from NATO, which is the proven American-led military alliance that has defended Europe? If Europe wanted to spend more (or just more effectively) on defense they could do it through NATO.
But the agreements isn't about defense. It's about creating the European imperial state ruled by Brussels. This is all about pushing America out of the picture and allocating defense spending to the EU where the Europeans can define any spending as "defense" related unlike NATO that insists that "alliance activity" or building schools in Africa should not count as the equivalent of defense spending.
Yes, as the secretary general of NATO said, increased EU military capabilities could benefit NATO--if the capabilities don't duplicate NATO's existing capabilities and if the EU capabilities can function within NATO.
That isn't the plan. I guarantee it.
Putin surely is smiling over this farcical defense agreement. Getting America out of European defenses is the best way for him to intimidate and defeat Europe.
In related news, does the European Union want to punish Britain more or less than they want to help continental Europeans avoid job losses by facilitating a smooth Brexit? Yes, that was a rhetorical question.
American policy should be to help Britain and anybody else escape the EU and to oppose the European Union project for "ever closer union."
Isn't one hostile empire in Europe enough for America to deal with?
