The European Union It seems that it is serious and, unlike what happened during Donald Trump’s first term, Now he will reinforce his own defense. 800,000 million euros in ten years, almost all out of national budgets.
In defense matters there is an axiom: it doesn’t matter what you do, but your abilities. If the EU is armed, it will have a strategic presence thus automatically because the other world actors They will not be fixed so much in what he says and what he can do. And in fact The Kremlin has already reacted annoying To this European rearmament considering it a threat.
Curiously the behavior of Donald Trumplike an elephant in a pot, you can get the opposite of what interests the US: A new strategic competitor. That those who were previously his friends, forced to follow him in his international policy, come to his own life and have the means to stand their own actions.
He said, the American president, that “The EU was made to annoy the US” (“To Fuck The United States”, was its exact expression). And in the end, even if that was not the intention, It is going to end up becoming a self -fulfilling prediction.
EU’s militarization means that, although almost all of its members are within NATO, on this side of the Atlantic there is a decision center based in Brussels increasingly capable of making decisions outside the USA.
In fact, the EU has already included an article since 2009, number 7, which speaks of the mutual defense obligation, in which it reads: “EU countries have the obligation to help themselves if one of them is the subject of armed aggression in their territory”.
And if one day Ukraine Enter the EU at the end it will be a bit as if he entered the NATO through the back door.
