America should oppose the strengthening of the European Union, especially in military issues.
The notion that the European Union is the military ally America needs to take pressure off of NATO is the absolute dumbest thing I've read about this year.
Further, the Russian military threat is farther away and weaker than the Soviet threat to Europe. So the idea that only a second super power on the continent can hold the line is no longer an argument for a EU military.
Seriously, how could a unified Europe do that? The strongest military power in free Europe--Britain--left the EU; and the strongest economic power in free Europe--Germany--thinks that Germans are barely suppressed Nazis who can't be trusted with military power! There is no path to a strong EU military and any diversion of scare resources to the EU just weakens NATO.
The EU wants to gut NATO to reduce American influence in Europe; and the EU itself is a potential threat to America as well as European freedoms:
The modern purpose of NATO is to keep America in Europe, keep Russia out, and keep European autocratic impulses down. The third reason is a real threat that is easy to forget in the post-World War II time frame that we remember as the normal state of European affairs. And the first reason is the means to achieve the third.
The EU is a proto-imperial power eager to remove the prefix that is no friend of America or a defender of a free Europe.
UPDATE: Well of course the proto-empire does:
The European Union’s top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has changed after four years of Donald Trump and that trans-Atlantic ties will be different in the future.
It's that "difference" that worries me.
And I corrected the quote format in the body of the post.
