Do the Brussels apparatchiki actually believe this nonsense about PESCO, the new European Union defense initiative?
The new initiative aims to spend more on defense systems and make member countries’ militaries much more integrated with each other. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel stressed it would have economic benefits. He said Europe spends 50 percent as much as the United States on defense yet only has 15 percent of its military efficiency.
With an economy equivalent to America's and a population greater, right off the bat spending 50% as much as America is a problem. But efficiency would be promoted by treating their armed forces as fighting forces rather than job-generating civil service jobs.
Tell me, which European nation lets their defense companies go out of business by buying another nation's hardware for the sake of "efficiency?" Anyone? Bueller?
As for making the countries' militaries more integrated with each other, that's why we have NATO and its standards for weapons and operating interoperability!
This nonsense is not for the purpose of defense. It is for the purpose of leveraging America out of Europe by downgrading NATO and instead building a new imperial state based on a new pan-European defense organization.
A European defense organization that will be far inferior to the proven NATO alliance for defending Europe from conventional threats.
America and Britain, as well as any country that actually needs Europe to have real defense capabilities to resist Russian ambitions to rebuild their empire in the west, should oppose this PESCO Trojan Horse from Brussels.
