I don’t think that’s up to us; it’s the americans who have been avoiding their responsibility to their nato allies.
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As an American genuenly why the hell? Our government is unstable and facsist, the next one will either be fascist and/or even less stable. Who the hell knows if this country will even exist in a decade from now?
Hope they're just empty words and not an actual desire to bend the knee to the transatlantic overlord.
Kallas is a von Der Leyen plant after a shit tenure as prime minister. Her position has nothing to do with compétence. Much like Ursula, she was drafted after being shit as a politician in her home country.
The best nugget of this Thatcher fan is she thought the free market would solve the energy crisis by itself and the government should not intervene, when Estonia was struggling under her leadership. She also kept attacking Europe's relationship with Russia while her husband's company was making bank in Russia. She is the daughter of a former prime minister and hasn't worked an honest day of work in her entire life. She'll say whatever furthers her career, like the good dog neolib she is. Ursula's legacy will be the fall of the EU.
Von der Leyen is not at the top by her own doing. As such she hasn't positioned Kallas. I would love to know who the real powerbroker is.
I hope she doesn't mean 'We should stick together unconditionally, no matter how many turd sandwiches the USA throws our way'.
And after that Great Replacement Theory announcement about the EU, I feel the limit has already been reached.
To give her the benefit of the doubt (other commenters here say she doesn't deserve it), I'd say she's primarily concerned about defense against Russia here.
Her rhetoric suggests that she believes in the USA as a principle that transcends its presidents.
I have lost that belief in the past decade, the very last remnants of it this year. There's still a long way to go til 2028 and even if the Dems win, it will never be the same anymore.
This is my biggest accusation against almost all politicians in the EU: that they do not seem to see that.