Submission statement: it directly engages with core neoliberal concerns about markets, sovereignty, regulation, and supranational governance—especially in the context of Brexit.
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>Unless these European leaders are prepared to do something brave and perhaps very expensive to make good their rhetoric, the best hope for this economically stagnant, welfare-addicted Continent is to maintain the strategy that has worked for the past 100 years and more. That is to do everything we can to persuade Americans of the truth that their security is bound up with ours, and that in return for that commitment we are willing to spend more on defense, and glad to accept the continued reality of American military hegemony in Europe.
It’s a dark day where I find myself agreeing with grand statesman Boris Johnson, but this is the reality of the situation: EU politicians today are all words, but they don’t believe they have a mandate to take any bold action on anything, so there’s no actual security independence. Telling Ukraine we are with them is easy and cheap, but what they need is someone to deliver enough resources to end the war on their terms, and the EU doesn’t want to foot the bill.
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Submission statement: it directly engages with core neoliberal concerns about markets, sovereignty, regulation, and supranational governance—especially in the context of Brexit.
>Unless these European leaders are prepared to do something brave and perhaps very expensive to make good their rhetoric, the best hope for this economically stagnant, welfare-addicted Continent is to maintain the strategy that has worked for the past 100 years and more. That is to do everything we can to persuade Americans of the truth that their security is bound up with ours, and that in return for that commitment we are willing to spend more on defense, and glad to accept the continued reality of American military hegemony in Europe.
It’s a dark day where I find myself agreeing with grand statesman Boris Johnson, but this is the reality of the situation: EU politicians today are all words, but they don’t believe they have a mandate to take any bold action on anything, so there’s no actual security independence. Telling Ukraine we are with them is easy and cheap, but what they need is someone to deliver enough resources to end the war on their terms, and the EU doesn’t want to foot the bill.