Miller: Europe – fall on its own request

Twenty years ago, transatlantic relations were based on an apparent axiom: Europe as a fast-growing partner and the US as a safety guarantor. Today, NSS 2025 reverses this perspective.

America no longer sees Europe as an equal partner, but as a continent weakened by civilization, demographic shrinkage, harmful influences of immigration, erosion of national identities, censorship and restrictions on the opposition. It besides sees excessive regulation on the part of Brussels and, as a result, a decline in productivity and a increasing technological, technological and economical distance to the US. This is the first so direct and brutal diagnosis spoken by Washington – a diagnosis that in Europe caused hysteria alternatively of reflection.

The conclusions are clear: Europe no longer controls its own future and the US does not intend to hold its hand. The fresh US safety strategy is not anti-European – it is simply a mirror in which Europe sees its own weakness and so reacts with a hard fear. That's where we contact on the point. Panic around the NSS 2025 is not based on Washington's policy, but on the deficiency of competent European leadership, the compromise of EU diplomacy and a coherent vision. The US does not gotta break up the Union – it can break up on its own, at its own request. If Berlin and Paris specify ‘unity’ as the consent of the remainder of Europe to their decisions, it is hard to talk of a real partnership. Europe fears the USA not due to the fact that Trump is exceptionally strong, but due to the fact that she is weak.

The last talks in London with the leaders of large Britain, France and Germany and president Zelenski are symbolic confirmation of the shift in the burden of decisions. It was there that the conditions of peace in Ukraine were discussed. The Weimar Triangle was replaced by a fresh triumvirate, in which Britain – a country that voted for Brexit to “regain control” – took the place of Poland erstwhile due, and present it forms the “architecture of peace”. erstwhile Macron talks about "conciliating the imagination of America's peace with the imagination of Europe and Ukraine", and Merz emphasizes scepticism towards solutions imposed by the US, it is not just a diplomatic description – it is simply a test for European leadership. A test in which Warsaw does not participate, but whose results straight concern it. Each associate of this triumvirate is underrated in his own country.

In the November survey only 15% The French had a affirmative opinion about Macrona, and as much as 82% were negative. In the UK, only 19% of the British rated Starmer positive, while 74% negative. In Germany, 23% were affirmative about Merz and 75% were negative. All 3 are in a deep crisis of trust, regardless of national and systemic differences. This is crucial to the stableness of their governments, the election prospects and the chances of opposition in these countries. It besides translates into a desire to play a bigger function than is possible. According to the American strategy, most Europeans want to end the war in Ukraine – unfortunately it is governments and leaders in problem that prolong the conflict. The U.S. is expecting peace as shortly as possible. America is not seeking war on Russia, but stability. Prolongation of the conflict carries a hazard of escalation, uncontrolled chain reaction and possible continental conflict.

Washington stresses that Europe sees Russia as an existential threat, but not America. If the Union wants to be a negotiating force at a table with Washington, it must first become a force in its own home – with conciliative leaders and common political will. If she wants to end the war, her leaders must read the time signs correctly. If Poland wants influence, it must return to the game with a pragmatic doctrine open to all directions. due to the fact that present the planet is not waiting – the planet changes priorities.

Leszek Miller

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