(Europe must Rise)(Ukraine must win) - Defending Europe without the US

'Europe’s first priority is to continue supporting Ukraine – Ukraine’s experienced military is currently the most effective deterrent against a Russian attack on the EU. If Ukraine decides that a US-Russian deal to end the war is unacceptable – because Putin’s peace guarantees are not credible, for example – Europe is capable of providing additional weapons to Ukraine to ensure its fighting capacities remain as they are currently. Ukraine and the EU rely on some critical US strategic enablers, including intelligence and satellite communications. These are difficult to replace in the short term but there are substitutes if necessary.'

- Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed, February 21, 2025



Context

U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

(Prometheus) - Europe must Rise - '..the post 1945/1989 European world' has ended.

Zelenskyy calls for ‘armed forces of Europe’


The United States is a joke of a country. How many ‘shared values’ does [Europe or] Australia actually have with it?

(Ukraine must win) - '..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.'

Ben Wallace: Trump’s Ukraine peace talks have echoes of Nazi appeasement