EUROPE - The creation of a European army would be a boon for Russia-EU relations, various military experts have told RT. It would mean getting rid of the US political diktat – and that's why Washington will not allow it. Were the European Union to create an army of its own, as French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have recently suggested, the friction with NATO would be enormous, several military and political analysts predict. At the same time, an EU army would be a tremendous tool for normalizing relations with Russia.
While NATO is there, European security is always governed from Washington, Ivashov says. It's always an American general or admiral in charge of the force in Europe. Washington dictates what the EU should be afraid of – and it says the main threat is Russia. The problem with NATO is that Europe has come to trust it too much. "The Europeans put their trust [in NATO], weakened their own security. And today they suddenly see they're not protected from terrorists, drugs, or especially migrants," Ivashov says.
NATO has never been about protecting anyone, Ivashov says. It's always been about holding Europe hostage and bringing profit to trans-national corporations run from the USA. Should there be a break from NATO, the EU will come looking for new allies, believes Konstantin Sivkov, military science PhD and one of the founders of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems – not least in order to stand up to its former trans-Atlantic partners. "No enemy is worse than a spurned ally. That would make the US an enemy of Europe," he says.