It is now time to build a real defense union.” These are the words re-elected European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen used to describe plans to fully militarize the EU. The planned transformation of the EU into a military union is being “sold” to Europeans as a response to the protracted Ukrainian conflict, but in reality it is really a federalist power play designed to get the EU to turn its economy into a war economy like the US, so as to leave the field completely free for the US to focus on containing China.
The federalization of the EU is the new plan of the leadership of the new Commission for its next term. In a full federalization of the EU, all of its member states will surrender important parts of their sovereignty, but also of their economic sovereignty (federalization of the public debt of the member states), and as happened with the surrender of the monetary policy of the eurozone member states to the ECB.
The reason for the federalization of the EU and its transformation into a war economy is the war in Ukraine and of course the Russian threat.
But this plan may also become more difficult to implement as two new groups have emerged in the European Parliament since the last elections:
- the AfD-led “Europe of Sovereign Nations” and
- the Hungarian-led “Patriots for Europe”,
both are hard and anti-federalization, anti-globalization and pro-member states in a loose union.
Made in USA the EU design
The only possible way to advance this agenda in the face of such growing opposition is to redouble anti-Russian terror and propaganda accordingly in the hope that the ruling liberal-globalist elites of the member states will agree to federalize the EU under the guise of defending against a alleged imminent invasion.
Von der Leyen’s plan is supported by US Democrats.
Germany’s vision of a “Fortress Europe”, which amounts to becoming the continent’s military powerhouse, has the full support of the US in order to facilitate the focus of US interest in the Pacific region and China.
Military Schengen and the EU’s so-called defense line to secure Poland’s borders are the most significant developments so far.
The federalization plan
The next step is to consolidate Germany’s military-strategic gains in the last six months through von der Leyen’s call for a military union, which would oversee German-controlled Brussels organize the Union’s military-industrial needs in 27 of its members, thus bringing them closer to the de facto federalization and war economy of its members.
An obstacle to these plans of Germany and the USA may be posed by the two aforementioned groups of the European Parliament,
That is why the two newly formed patriotic-nationalist groups of the European Parliament are trying to do everything they can within this body and in the countries of origin of their members to prevent the ruling liberal elites from following through on the military union plans of von der Leyen.
