Originally Posted by
Video Mixdown
It’s pretty clear that Macron was talking about a European Military organisation under the leadership of France, not the EU and not NATO. You could argue that splitting most of continental Europe away from NATO, effectively destroying it, would be warmly welcomed in Moscow and Beijing.
I suspect the Chinese were more concerned about the EU siding with the US over Taiwan rather than Ukraine. Such action on the part of the EU would be economic rather than military since, as you say, the EU as an entity has no military to speak of and the the forces of the member countries are under the sovereign control of those states.
Originally Posted by
West Coast
Sorry but Europe and EU are not interchangeable terms.
I never said they were but Macron has influence within the EU and that is 27 of the countries within Europe. By comparison, how many of the countries within Europe are not members of the EU or closely economically connected with them by to the point of accepting EU rules?