Trump and International Security

Gatestone Institute ^ | 14/11/16 | Richard Kemp

[Eleutheria5]

Since Donald Trump's election, media-fuelled panic has engulfed Europe, including over defence and security. We are told that World War III is imminent, that Trump will jump into bed with Putin and pull the US out of NATO. Such fantasies are put about by media cheerleaders for European political elites, terrified that Trump's election will inspire support for populist candidates in the forthcoming elections in Germany, the Netherlands and France.

In fact, it is the EU, not Donald Trump, that threatens to undermine NATO and the security of the West. In recent days, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, his foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, and German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen have suggested that Trump's election should give greater impetus to a European defence force.

This has been an EU aspiration for many years. Citing Trump is just a cynical pretext for speeding it up. It is already well advanced and has gained greater focus since the UK's decision to leave the EU. The EU army is a vanity project, seen by many European leaders as a necessary instrument of the ever-closer union they desire. Speaking at a meeting of the European Defence Agency in Brussels the day after Trump's election, Ms Mogherini suggested that the EU needs "the full potential of a super power, in the field of defence and security."

To the economically atrophied EU, a defence union also has the potential for enormous financial savings. The intention will be to aggregate national military capabilities under what will no doubt be described as rationalization and efficiency. This will bring swingeing cuts to European defence capability. It will also severely reduce flexibility and the redundancy which is so vital to military forces that have any expectation of combat in which attrition and multiple simultaneous threats might occur.

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[Eleutheria5]

"One can tell a true genius by the fact that every dunce in the world is in confederacy against him."

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: This has been an EU aspiration for many years ::

Ummmm, “aspiration” ? Huh?

[mewzilla]

While we’re on the subject...

Revealed, the NATO slackers: Why Trump is so infuriated by countries spending less than half their fare share on European defence (and we should be too)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3934266/Sorry-France-Germany-Canada-NATO-countries-not-spending-defence-warrant-Trump-using-forces-protect-attack.html

[mewzilla]

as·pi·ra·tion ˌaspəˈrāSH(ə)n/ noun 1. a hope or ambition of achieving something. "he had nothing tangible to back up his literary aspirations" synonyms: desire, hope, dream, wish, longing, yearning; More

[mewzilla]

Not all aspirations are respiratory :-)