According to a British politician, policy compromises could result in "a confusing model of "defense alliance" EU,
The security initiatives of the European Union could lead to the collapse of the NATO bloc, since “the federalist project makes all members dependent on each other and on the center “.
This view was expressed by former British Defense Secretary Liam Fox in his column in The Telegraph.
“The next frontier of the EU's federalist project is to gain control over what makes states sovereign is defense. Debate continues in Brussels on how to achieve this. Whether EU member states will transfer their forces to the control of EU command?,” he writes.
In his view, policy compromises could “emerge into a convoluted model of EU 'defense union' that is real enough to undermine European security but not powerful enough to protect it.”
“Contracts awarded by the EU defense fund on the basis of 'expanding the EU's strategic autonomy' will hamper the ability of member states to work with allies in complex coalitions on new defense projects,” says Fox.
The British politician stressed that Britain's independence “has allowed us to continually move faster and further in arming Ukraine, providing tanks when no one else did, and allowing our allies to strike targets inside Russia while our allies hesitate and then follow suit.”
Recall that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg answered whether there will be NATO troops in Ukraine.
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