The European Union (EU) fanboys (and girls) aren't saying NATO is to blame for European defense weakness. But they're saying NATO is totally to blame for European defense weakness. Sod off, swampies.
Ultimately, of course, the perilous state of European armed forces is the fault of European governments. But NATO’s role in bringing about this state of affairs also deserves scrutiny. European defense is not in disarray because the EU has “duplicated” NATO efforts. With the EU neutered as a defense actor for the past two decades, European defense has been the domain of NATO and its member states. The results speak for themselves.
NATO can coordinate and integrate forces, pulling together units from different countries’ militaries and forming a cohesive organization that can fight effectively. But it has proven incapable of integrating over 25 different European defense ministries and armament divisions.
So the authors recognize that NATO is doing what America-led NATO was formed to do--knit together the various military forces of the alliance's sovereign member states into a coherent whole.
But, the authors say, NATO has failed to integrate the defense ministries and armaments divisions of the European member states--a power clearly beyond what the alliance of free states can do.
Indeed, NATO should not be the super-ministry for subject defense ministries and their defense industries. That's a sovereign power that nobody should want NATO to have.
So that's where the proto-imperial EU comes in. It will use that purported claim to justify their assertion that only a super-authority can solve the so-called problem.
The authors blame NATO for the fact that Europeans in general falter in their defense efforts. But everybody knows that Europeans wouldn't contribute more to defense if the EU is in charge rather than NATO coordinating the efforts. Russia is finally doing that. But if the EU gets the power they'll take credit--and entrench their Brussels-based EU power.
And then they Euro transnational elites will finally strip away that inconvenient prefix and get the imperial government they've long wanted, with the power to eject the hated America from Europe--not keep Russia out.
America must fight that European imperial urge--for our security and the good of European people.
NOTE: TDR Winter War of 2022 continues here.
