[Olog-hai]

Anyone who has read the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights knows that the “common values” claim is false, just for starters. Article 52 of that Charter makes that plain:

Any limitation on the exercise of the rights and freedoms recognized by this Charter must be provided for by law and respect the essence of those rights and freedoms. Subject to the principle of proportionality, limitations may be made only if they are necessary and genuinely meet objectives of general interest recognized by the Union or the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others. …

The US Constitution makes rights absolute and inviolable, by contrast, and does not conjure up ephemeral “objectives of general interest” by which to take freedoms away and build a totalitarian state.

[Olog-hai]

Correction: Wolfgang Schäuble is Germany’s finance minister, not foreign minister (who is Frank-Walter Steinmeier).

[Psalm 144]

They just love us for our cannon fodder.

[Grzegorz 246]

“I am confident that the Ukraine crisis will help us to strengthen transatlantic ties and rediscover our common interests,”

For Europe it is probably the last opportunity to increase military budgets, abandon CO2 madness etc. before it is too late.