French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Europe to assert itself on the world stage, saying it is time to start acting like a “power”.
In the face of growing threats from China, Russia and now the US, he told a group of European newspapers that the continent faced a “wake-up call”.
"Are we ready to become a power? This is the question in the field of economy and finance, in defence and security, and in our democratic systems.
“In another era we might have said it is the moment to ‘assume our majority’,” he said ahead of an EU summit in Brussels later this week.
I’d for the longest time wondered why Europe has been so complacent in letting the US dominate the geopolitical agenda. Could it be by letting the US overspend on military, EU can instead invest in better living standards for themselves & mooch off US military support through NATO if the need ever arises?
I honestly think it’s laziness.
Europeans still appreciate just living life with their families.
Americans are out for world domination in the name of their oligarchs.
Yeah, so, here’s the thing. Wanting to live life with your family is not lazy. Not having a desire for world domination is not lazy. Those are just normal things that regular people do.
Yes, us Europeans cannot just be bothered to bomb the middle east to absolute shit to maintain American prompt global strike projection thinly veiled as an evangelical millenarian psychosis.
Don’t know what you mean, but they did join the US in Afghanistan & Iraq through NATO by again complacently following the US into whatever.
Oh, got it. So the allies mooch of the US defense while they get higher living standards, but also provide troops and equipment in US strength projection campaigns.
Those pesky Europoors always swindling with the way they fulfill their alliance duties but somehow also not being helpful enough, but also being blindly lead by their imperial masters.
Pick one narrative