Its been talked about for literally decades - wake me up when something actually happens there.
I won’t need to wake you up, because if you’re posting on this forum it means you’ll be wide awake when Donald J. Trump will be elected President on 5th November 2024. That will be the catalyst for the formation of an EU army. And bizarrely, I actually think it’s the one hurdle that the 27* … would agree on.
The key question isn’t really the institutional set up of it, it is whether the European defence industry would be willing to stop taking its taxpayers, the people it is supposed to defend, for a ride. We invest billions of euros or lei or kroner into Defense black holes and the Commission claims if we just made a “Defence Single Market” (because the Commission thinks everything can be solved by more market forces) it would magically become more efficient. Instead we will likely get something akin to FRONTEX : an expensive grift that allows the MODs to continue to milk the European taxpayer dry rather than fulfilling its remit. Has Frontex stopped the irregular migration crisis? No, it has focussed instead on buying fancy toys that allow executives and bureaucrats to pay themselves obscene money to eventually end up on the board of the toy manufacturers. Would a European Defence Institution follow its remit to deter Russia? No, because the nature of the European political class is how to maximize their careerist ambitions in the short lifespan they all have as politicians. And Defence is where the big players play, whilst small time Balkan or Italian thieves prefer to pander to Qatari interests in exchange for some pointless speech in the European Parliament. The same thing happened in the US under the execrable Republicans.
Anyway, with Michel backing out of a top European job it leaves the question as to what Von Der Leyen will do. She ignored and insulted the outgoing the MEPs today by leaving them halfway through and flew to Italy to cosy up to Meloni. The EPP are clearly hedging their bets, they are desperate for a right-wing alliance that can ensure the eradication of left-wing voices from certain social media and traditional media and turn the European political scene into an American-style 2 party system between the right-wing populists and the conservative christian democrats with their cuck ALDE dweebs and Macron following them.
*maybe except Hungary, but then we could always just let them be invaded by Russia, as in 1956, or follow my idea and deliberately cause a border war with Romania, to give them the necessary wake up shot needed and reduce them to a even smaller rump state…after all the Banat and Transylvania can still be enlarged
