“Strategic autonomy” is just empty talk. Europe cannot be independent of the U.S. after destroying its energy base and becoming tied up with U.S. LNG at 4-5x the price of the gas it was cheaply importing from Russia ….and while committing export suicide by starting trade wars with China…and while the U.S. is using tax subsidies in its “Inflation Reduction Act” to steal European companies to set up manufacturing in inside US.
At the end of the day all these supposed European war hawks are just intellectual zeros and cannot possibly have thought through any of this.
If they plan on blowing up their trade links to China, and blowing up their supplies of cheap energy, and sending armies to attack a heavily armed neighbour then those Eurobonds will be priced as junk.
So that’s not going to work.
I think they are simply aiming to Ukraine all of the frontline countries as sacrificial pawn and the rest will be repressive states doing nothing for citizens l- like the U.S.
“The EU’s mutual defense clause is actually stronger than the Article 5 clause of NATO’s charter. But countries like Sweden and Finland are still opting to join NATO, because the EU treaty does not include the United States. And the US has the biggest military in the alliance.”
That explains a lot, dose not justify the stupid move, but clarifies it however (In return for the US’s involvement, they'll just have to pay the piper; MIC) . Thank you.
“Strategic autonomy” is just empty talk. Europe cannot be independent of the U.S. after destroying its energy base and becoming tied up with U.S. LNG at 4-5x the price of the gas it was cheaply importing from Russia ….and while committing export suicide by starting trade wars with China…and while the U.S. is using tax subsidies in its “Inflation Reduction Act” to steal European companies to set up manufacturing in inside US.
At the end of the day all these supposed European war hawks are just intellectual zeros and cannot possibly have thought through any of this.
They plan to borrow heavily through issuing Eurobonds.
If they plan on blowing up their trade links to China, and blowing up their supplies of cheap energy, and sending armies to attack a heavily armed neighbour then those Eurobonds will be priced as junk.
So that’s not going to work.
I think they are simply aiming to Ukraine all of the frontline countries as sacrificial pawn and the rest will be repressive states doing nothing for citizens l- like the U.S.
“The EU’s mutual defense clause is actually stronger than the Article 5 clause of NATO’s charter. But countries like Sweden and Finland are still opting to join NATO, because the EU treaty does not include the United States. And the US has the biggest military in the alliance.”
That explains a lot, dose not justify the stupid move, but clarifies it however (In return for the US’s involvement, they'll just have to pay the piper; MIC) . Thank you.