Americans who want to walk away from Europe play into the hands of Europeans who seize on justifiable American frustration with Europe's level of defense to demonize America and seek an imperial future.
At a time of intensifying great power competition, the EU has to choose between becoming a satrap of the U.S. or breaking free to steer its own course — and it must decide quickly.
Act fast before anybody notices the BS and stops us!
And so anything is an excuse for Brussels to claw more power to itself to strip away the pesky prefix.
The European Union is just one threat that America faces in Europe. Don't walk away and let a threat arise when what we achieved through two hot and one cold war can be defended at a relatively small price.
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