The European Union sees everything through the lens of erasing the prefix from their proto-imperial project.
The Aukus nuclear submarine alliance between the US, Australia and the UK will have lasting implications for Nato. Nato won’t be disbanded, but it will play a more peripheral role in the future.
The Eurocrats hope everything means the weakening of NATO. As long as Russia is a threat, Europe needs NATO. And the AUKUS is about dealing with China--not punishing Europeans. The EU always wants NATO to play a more peripheral role in Europe.
Denmark isn't going along with France's EU power play:
Denmark's prime minister has pledged to resist Emmanuel Macron's proposals for an EU military force, stating that she will "go up against those who try to undermine transatlantic cooperation".
Mette Frederiksen warned that plans for a "stronger Europe" must not come "at the expense of strong transatlantic cooperation”.
Her intervention came after France attempted to use the fallout over the Aukus defence pact between Australia, Britain and the US to bolster its demands for a new EU military force.
The simple fact is that the dramatic rise of China's threats
and France's failures to advance the sub contract led Australia to
choose better subs designed by the British with American assistance.
And the AUKUS deal is about much more than subs.
Nor was the deal anywhere nearly as big as France claims, which explains their ease of turning to exploiting the submarine project cancellation to advance its EU interests.
But what really gives me hope is that apparently even the Biden administration doesn't trust the EU:
US considers France and the EU unreliable with respect to China because of their special relationships.
The apparent answer to the question of whether Biden can salvage his "honeymoon" with Europe falls apart when you remember there is a difference between political Europe and geographic Europe. Relations with individual European states can certainly be improved even if relations with the EU are doomed.
Remember, France sees itself as steering the EU. And the EU is a potential threat to America and European freedom. The EU doesn't give a damn about defending Europe--it wants power.
If even Biden refuses to strengthen the EU at the expense of NATO, NATO will continue to defend Europe from Russia's paranoid aggression despite EU wishes to be the European Empire.
