EUROPE - French President Emmanuel Macron called on Tuesday for a “real European army” as the continent marks a century since the divisions of WWI. “We have to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia and even the United States of America,” Macron told Europe 1 radio.
The French president has pushed for a joint EU military force since his arrival in power last year. He said Tuesday that Europe needed to reduce its dependence on US might, AFP reports. “When I see [US President Donald Trump] announcing that he’s quitting a major disarmament treaty which was formed after the 1980s euro-missile crisis that hit Europe, who is the main victim? Europe and its security,” he said.
Faced with “a Russia which is at our borders and has shown that it can be a threat,” Macron added: “We need a Europe which defends itself better alone, without just depending on the US, in a more sovereign manner.”
Back in 1982, Mr Armstrong explained why the Europeans would unite militarily to counter the threat from Russia and even the United States!.
It appears to now be happening!
“Now one of the great things that is urging Europe on, and perhaps the greatest thing that will cause them to hurry and get together on this, is their fear of what’s going on in the Kremlin and the Soviet Union. And Andropov is frightening them, and that is going to rush them. They are losing confidence in the United States as having a military umbrella over them to protect them, and they want their own military force to protect themselves. That’s the way they feel over there. Now that is a chief incentive to unite them and that is taking place.” (Transcript - Sermon (1982-11-27) - United States Of Europe Is Coming)