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 St...