Sovereign European countries can be America's friends. "Europe" if it means the European Union speaking for them cannot. Are people just noticing this?
I don't understand why this is confusing (tip to Instapundit):
My recent trip to Brussels for the@NATO Ministerial meeting left me with one overriding impression: the US has long failed to address the glaring inconsistency between its relations with NATO and the EU. These are almost all the same countries in both organizations. When these countries wear their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual security. But when these countries wear their EU hats, they pursue all sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to US interests and security—including censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation, support for Communist Cuba, etc etc.
NATO allows America--even in a more limited ground role--to have influence on European states and lead them in defense of freedom.
The European Union, on the other hand, is not part of the free West, as Vice President Vance reminded us with his warning about lack of free speech in Europe. The EU is in fact a proto-imperial body that hates America and desperately wants to strip away the prefix.
Russia is an active threat to America and Europeans. The EU is a long-term threat.
Don't let either empire force us to rely on our Atlantic moat as America's first line of defense.
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