“We need to own our agenda,” added the fourth diplomat. “Ukraine, productivity, competitiveness, security, strategic autonomy. The lesson is not to say no to everything.”
The problem is that there’s just so much to do and most Europeans are just clueless about the stakes of all this and how much things have to change and the fact that it will cost money. To overcome all the lethargy, the learned helplessness, the ignorance, I’m almost hoping that the orange ogre will keep on like this for the rest of his term (and then lose of course). It might be the only way anything’s going to change.
Seriously. A version of the EU that is able to manage its own defense and autonomy in the absence of (and possible even in conflict with) the United States is an entirely different entity than what we have today.
