Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?

Friedrich Merz, Germany’s presumptive next leader, offered a bombshell on national television.

Donald Trump “does not care much about the fate of Europe,” he told Germans, and the priority was to “step by step…achieve independence from the USA”. 

This was not some distant objective. He was unsure, he said, whether NATO would still exist “in its current form” in June, when leaders are due to meet in the Netherlands, 

“or whether we will have to establish an independent European defence capability much more quickly”.

In truth, it could take a decade before Europe is able to defend itself without America’s help.

 “The security architecture that Europe has relied on for generations is gone and is not coming back,” writes Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former secretary-general of NATO, in an essay for The Economist.

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/02/24/the-transatlantic-relationship-is-crumbling-says-an-ex-head-of-nato

Tlhe Economist 25 February 2025

https://www.economist.com/international/2025/02/25/can-europe-confront-vladimir-putins-russia-on-its-own


Klarar sig Europa utan USA:s hjälp?

Skribenten är lektor i krigsvetenskap på strategiavdelningen på Försvarshögskolan

Fokus 25 februari 2025


 Bernard-Henri Lévy: Europe Must Unite or Die; a new European Army, under independent European authority.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/bernard-henri-levy-europe-must-unite-or.html


Merz is laying the groundwork for a grand bargain with Macron 

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/merz-is-laying-groundwork-for-grand.html 


Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 26 Februari 2025

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/rolfs-lanktips-26-februari-2025.html







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