Helping Ukraine is Europe’s job now as Trump is closer to Putin than to any of the continent’s democratic leaders, scholar says
Helping Ukraine is Europe’s job now as Trump is closer to Putin than to any of the continent’s democratic leaders, scholar says
European leaders should have started preparing for another Trump presidency long ago. They had been warned.
Now, leaders should envisage a world where NATO no longer exists—or where the United States is no longer the leading force in the alliance, writes Phillips Payson O’Brien, Professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland. He is the author of The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler—How War Made Them, and How They Made War.
"In some ways, this is more scary psychologically than in practice. Europe—which is to say, the democratic countries enmeshed in institutions such as NATO and the European Union—has the economic and technological resources to underwrite a serious defense effort. It has a large and educated enough population to staff modern armed forces. It also has some strong and growing military capabilities. For instance, European states either have received or will receive in the coming years as many as 600 F-35 fighters—the most advanced and capable aircraft in the world. Such a force could dominate the skies against a clearly inferior Russian opponent."
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In which Europeans are invited to “believe what Donald trump says”
The article advocates Europe stepping up, escalating, and using their fleeting of F35s to counter balance US playing a smaller role in NATO
If Europe is stupid enough to buy American weapons to prosecute an American war, they deserve everything they get .
American war
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So if you don't endorse European support to Ukraine or Europe/Ukraine using American weapons, what do you want here? Do you want them to simply give up and surrender their land to Russia? Do you want only European countries to supply weaponry and equipment? I'm not sure what options are actually left after those are out or how to read this comment in general. The 600 F-35s are presumably already ordered, which is why there's a concrete number to report on.