April 26, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron on April 25 urged other European Union states to strengthen their defenses and to reconsider their role on the global stage.
“There is a risk our Europe could die. We are not equipped to face the risks,” Macron said during a speech at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Macron stressed that Europe now “lacks ambition” and operates “too slowly” in a fast-changing world full of challenges such as war, increasing trade competition, and energy scarcity, among others.
Europe is now “divided,” he said, and needs to become a superpower that can defend its borders with less reliance on the United States.
The EU must become capable of defending its interests “alone if it is necessary,” and be ready to prove that it is “never a vassal of the U.S.,” he said.
Europe is between war and peace, Macron said, reminding his audience that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has entered its third year.
“Our ability to ensure our security is at stake,” Macron added. “Russia must not be allowed to win.”
Macron also called on EU states to boost European cybersecurity capacity, close defense ties with the U.K., establish a European academy to train high-ranking military personnel, and ramp up European defense production.
“We must produce more, we must produce faster, and we must produce as Europeans,” Macron said.
Macron in recent months has become outspoken on European defense issues, championing increases in defense production and military aid to Ukraine.
In March, Macron called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “existential” for France and Europe. Later, Macron said he would not rule out the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine.
https://kyivindependent.com/macron-on-europes-defense-we-are-not-equipped-to-face-the-risks
The problems in Europe are so manifold, that it’s difficult to find a place where to start listing them and where to end. The core of their problems are their leaders.
After over two years of war, not a single nation – even France – has seen the necessity to hand over to Ukraine EVERYTHING it needs, in SUFFICIENT NUMBERS, and QUICKLY. The collective leaders have not realized the fact that Ukraine is now fighting the continent’s ONLY enemy. They are pretending that they must be prepared to fight if it should become a necessity, but fail to see their utter inadequacies in doing so. There is currently no army in Europe that could do what Ukraine is doing. The continent has become too soft, too gentle, too woke. No country possesses the toughness that is required to fight such an evil entity that is mafia land.
Once Ukraine has fallen, the fall of the rest of Europe is only a matter of time.
France is a military and economic power comparable to the UK. Yet it has contributed less than half of what the UK gave to Ukraine.
Piss poor Macron. Now, match the UK. Or send your promised three divisions to Ukraine.
Either Macron’s idea of his about sending troops to Ukraine will die a silent death, or there is a plan being constructed that’ll surprise us all. I fear the former might be true, but hope for the latter to happen.