European leaders push back against Washington’s proposal for a broader security framework, warning that Moscow cannot dictate the continent’s future as US-led peace negotiations over Ukraine prepare to resume in Abu Dhabi.
European leaders push back against Washington’s proposal for a broader security framework, warning that Moscow cannot dictate the continent’s future as US-led peace negotiations over Ukraine prepare to resume in Abu Dhabi.
Oh I see you live in fantasy land. A fantasy land where Russia didn’t lose it’s superpower status at the end of the cold war. Where the US is in a postion to sieze control of an entire contient full of organisationally and culturally diverse nations and will be able to split it between themselves and Russia. And in this fanasty of yours they’ll be able to this for so little cost that the money and reasources they’ll be able to extract from the EU will more than pay for this endavour such that the money and reasources make it worth it for the US to take over the EU.
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Listen if all the EU militaries were armed only with rocks invading and holding the EU would still be a massive and costly undertaking and you expect the US who are currently struggling in Iran to just be able to stroll in and take it? The same US which is famously very allegric to servicemen coffins being shipped home? Is your assessment that the EU is no longer a major power based entirely on the belief that it would simply roll over if seriously attacked?
Also pointing out that France has three hundred nukes does not convince me the EU isn’t a major power anymore.
You could argue that Russia lost its (it’s = it is) superpower status at the end of the cold war. They were very weak during the Yeltsin era, probably weaker than the EU. But that is no longer true. Russia is slowly grinding the Ukrainian army - an army three times the size of the French - while outproducing the US and EU combined three to one in shells. I still think they are the weakest of the three superpowers - but they are definitely not the Russia of 1995.
But I believe that if the EU is divided up, the majority of the spoils will go to the US. It will not be an Iran-style invasion. Iran is a single large country that has been preparing for a US attack for decades; the EU is a collection of smaller states, some led by politicians who would happily sell out their neighbours to the US. So the US will probably ‘divide and rule’ - offer to spare (or even help) countries / politicians who bend the knee, while blockading, sanctioning, or otherwise punishing the holdouts. An exception might be made for France - they have ‘the bomb’ and so would probably be let alone.