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The Polish Prime Minister referred to a similar assessment by the head of the US European Command (USEUCOM) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Alexis Grinkiewicz, with whom he had spoken shortly before. According to this assessment, by 2027 Russia and China could become strong enough to seek a coordinated confrontation with NATO and the United States.
Given the ongoing war in Ukraine, a number of possible scenarios are circulating among Western military experts about when other European countries could also face aggression. Forecasts indicate that this could happen as early as 2027. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius pointed to 2029.
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We are talking about WW3. A bit of distraction is to be expected.
If Obama had said that Europe should tripple its military budget to fight Russia while US fights China, would we have agreed?
Trump turning the US into a threat makes us spend it voluntarily.
The president is a reality show star. It’s a show.
The US has been actively engaged in economic espionage against the EU for a long time - at one point, the Obama administration even tapped the German chancellor’s cell phone. It has not been an honest alliance for a long time, but rather a military alliance. Even back then, Europe should have become independent and found its own position in the world - now this is more relevant than ever as we need to stay out of WW3 instead of providing the battleground on which our false Allies can fight for their economic interests.
I am pretty sure we do the same on the US (at least i hope so), the bad thing on the US side was that they were cought (thanks to the Snowden leaks).
But we don’t have tech giants like Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Oracle, PayPal and so on, who leave back doors open for the US government.
Absurdly, however, we have politicians who are in the process of completely disclosing even the most sensitive information about each and every EU citizens to a US company: namely Palantir, which is already in use in the German state of Bavaria, for example. I can only explain this with corruption, because these politicians should know that the US government, currently a bunch of criminals, can access this data at any time.
What I mean is that we need to be cautious not only about Chinese technology, such as Huawei’s radio masts, but also about US technology - for exactly the same reason.
Unfortunately, Europe is currently in a weak position, and this is the result of decades of one-sided orientation toward the US, which means that we are still dependent on them.