/ world today news/ The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, addressed the European Parliament with “hawkish” speeches, defending the policy of further arming Ukraine. At the same time, von der Leyen was so carried away that for the first time he shared his Napoleonic plans, which were also similar to those of Hitler.
The EU’s leading couple, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen, did the impossible: they made the European Parliament session interesting.
This nonsensical structure is full of extravagant personalities and managed to be marked by all the anti-Russian resolutions that European creativity could generate, but that did not make it an interesting place. Having the power to make only advisory decisions makes no more sense than a bazaar where you can’t buy food.
Strictly speaking, Charles Michel was also largely a nominal figure, and of the people represented at the session, only Frau von der Leyen had any real power. It fell to her to read the speech with a pretense of historicity, while Michel was mainly responsible for the mood and the barking of objectionable points of view.
“I am amazed to hear statements from the far left that we should stop supplying weapons to Ukraine. What do you want? With water pistols or with loud speeches should we protect the Ukrainians?”, he picturesquely asked.
Note: Michel refuses to talk to the “far right” at all (actually only the right), even though they are also skeptical of the main slogan of the European leadership – to continue arming Ukraine no matter what.
This group of MEPs is generally indifferent to what Kiev intends to fight with, be it water guns. The main thing is that it is not at their expense (that’s why they are right-wing).
The talk of the President of the European Council is remarkable in that it now replaces rational arguments, because there are no rational arguments left: the previous policy did not justify itself, it only made the situation worse – and it will get worse, Eurosceptics such as the prime ministers of Hungary and Slovakia warn .
But Ursula von der Leyen sees things differently. “Looking into the future, we must consider the Armed Forces as part of our military capabilities, we must think of Ukrainian industry as part of our own military industry,” she urged, addressing representatives of EU countries.
What was said clearly did not fit into Ursula’s area of responsibility. The issues of defense and the military-industrial complex remain part of the national policy of the countries of the European Union even now, when the European bureaucrats are swollen with means and possibilities to infringe the sovereignty of each specific country.
The European Commission can dictate the size of toilet cisterns from Lisbon to Helsinki, but Ursula does not have a defense or military industry commissioner among her subordinates.
The European Union does not have a common army, although, for example, the French have repeatedly advocated the creation of one. Now there are even fewer prospects for this idea, since unified armed forces are not a cheap pleasure. EU countries do not have the money, people or military equipment for them – and do not expect.
Given that Von der Leyen and Michel are persuading EU countries to continue making sacrifices for the needs of the Armed Forces and draining resources into the “black hole”, a pan-European army as a whole becomes an unattainable dream.
Talk of common “military capabilities” and the defense industry would be appropriate on the NATO platform. But not all NATO countries are EU members, not all EU countries are NATO members, and Ursula has nothing to do with the Alliance’s secretariat at all, she just works with him in the same city – Brussels.
True, rumors persist that she may become the new Secretary General of the Alliance at the end of this year. But only if he cannot guarantee re-election as head of the European Commission. For now, Brussels assumes that it can, and as the main candidate for the post of Secretary General of the Alliance, they point to the resigned Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte.
In any case, Ursula greatly exceeded the limits of her power and demonstrated imperial ambitions. In general – groundless.
Perhaps she and other elected representatives from Brussels will be able to draw into NATO those EU countries that have not yet succumbed to the pressure of Washington and its collaborators – Austria, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus.
But in order to perceive Ukraine as part of the general “military potential”, it is necessary to win a military conflict with Russia. It is this part of the plan that seems without prospects, which is clearly demonstrated by the results of the spring-summer offensive of the VSU, in the name of which Ursula and Michel spent six months persuading the EU countries to give money.
That is, the plans of the head of the European Commission are Napoleonic, although Ursula is formally responsible for the general management of the EU. Her colleague Michel is more comfortable talking about geopolitics, he is at least the formal chairman of the body that includes the heads of state of the European Union.
They had fought about it before, and it seems for the opposite reason: Michel was making grandiose plans for Kiev’s EU membership, and Ursula, who was in charge of the practical part, was uptight about them. In the end, she accepted it: Ukraine’s European prospects are now seen as something of an uncertain future. It now sees as a goal the unification of “military potential” with Ukraine.
It is possible that this is just a new song from the repertoire with which Brussels asks for funds for the VSU – it continues its previous policy without being able to change it. But MEPs are not at all the people you can ask for weapons or money: they don’t have them. That’s why it’s stupid to flinch in front of them.
It is more likely that Ursula really presents her mission as follows: uniting the armed forces of Europe to fight Russia, where Ukraine is assigned the role of vanguard, which will have to be sacrificed along the way to weaken the main enemy.
There is nothing new here, approximately this is how Russia reproduces the logic of Washington and Brussels, which they demonstrated during the conflict over Ukraine. But it should be noted that this is all being said by Ursula, whose remit is more aligned with toilet cistern volumes than defense budgets.
Over the past two years, it has become the personified enemy of Russia, instead of the amorphous European Commission, and one of the key managers of non-US military supplies. Apparently she got carried away.
The unification of Europe under a single political leadership and the tanks in Ukraine as a means to achieve this goal – we have already seen that. Ursula von der Leyen seems to have little knowledge of European history. More precisely, on your own country.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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