Bernard-Henri Lévy: Europe Must Unite or Die; a new European Army, under independent European authority.
If we do not act, we will endure—in two, three, or five years—a new Russian assault, but this time in a Baltic country, Poland, or elsewhere.
Action, in this case, can mean only one thing: the formation of a new European Army, under independent European authority.
Not NATO, dominated by the United States and its troops, but a European Army, under European command, like the one proponents of “strategic autonomy” have been dreaming and talking about off and on for three quarters of a century.
Without this we will be vassalized.
As for actual troops, a European force will not have to start from scratch.
The European Union has already approved the creation of a rapid reaction force, elements of which were training in southern Spain in October 2023.
It has a European Union Military Committee (EUMC), composed of high-ranking officers from 27 nationalities, based in Brussels, and that provides the Council with major strategic options.
It has a European Union Military Staff, consisting of 200 people, also in Brussels, already operational and currently responsible, for example, for all aid to Ukraine.
It has Battlegroups, each with a strength of 1,500 soldiers, requiring 10 days to be deployed.
These groups have already operated in Chad, Congo, and Macedonia, and two of them are fully ready, on high alert, and deployable at any time.
I saw President Zelensky in Paris a few weeks ago.
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a philosopher, author, and filmmaker. His latest book is Israel Alone.
Bernard-Henri Lévy The Free Press 19 February 2025
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Juncker, Bildt och Wallström vill ha en EU-armé
En fransk intellektuell.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
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