The president of the Government says that he does not like to talk about rearming Europe and wants to change the name to the plan of Ursula von der Leyen. Apparently he tries to appease antimilitarism from his voters, but there is something else. It is probably also a political aesthetics.
In her opinion, the current president of the Commission is committing a beginner’s failure that he would never commit. Because Pedro Sánchez knows that, in politics, the objectives to meet and grow with guarantees, they must be planted in a previously prepared land. And the fertilizer of these objectives are the words. Words do not change the reality of thingsbut his perception. And many times, that is enough. Modern politics is above all a matter of perception.
Our government president is a born survivor. This does not hesitate or his worst enemies. That Von der Leyen calls his “Rearm Europe” plan (rearmar Europe “) is an affront in his opinion to fineness and” savoir faire “that is expected of a modern politic issue of political efficiencybut also of aesthetics that generates rash. It is a mistake that amounts to its magician curriculum, capable of passing its changes of opinion of the white to black thanks to the use of the semantics.
We have to talk another way
So, step number one, you have to change the words. And this is where it fails. Surely Alister Campbell, the Spin Doctor of Tony Blair, would have already found a perfect word to replace rear. But this magician of political ingenuity that we have in the Spanish presidency of the Government has not really given us to journalists A new term with which to replace the word “rearme.”
He has limited himself to telling us that it is important to link the new expense with the idea of security, which we must underline its relationship with double -use technologies, border surveillance, hybrid threats, cybersecurity … “We have to talk another wayaddress our citizens in another way when we talk about the need to improve security, ”he said. This time is too confusing.
Von der Leyen The same thinks that an army is not an NGO
Especially in front of the harsh reality. The reality is that Europe has discovered that He has no ammunition in his warehouseswhich has the tanks counted on the fingers of one hand and that is why they cannot lend many to Ukraine; that planes are missing, that there are not many men in their barracks to replace those who fall into a real, serious and weary war like the one that is lived in Ukraine.
And yes, the truth is that they have decided to rearm tanks, ammunition, airplanes, attack and transport helicopters, submarines and war ships. Simple and plain. “Rearm Europ” has called it von der Leyen. Who surely, as she was Minister of Defense in her country, still thinks that An army is not an NGO.
