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Old 5th February 2026 | 09:07
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Asturias56
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Today's Times has an article by Edward Lucas -

Europe can defend itself but the price is high

Protection against Russia means giving up global ambitions and raising defence spending quickly


This shift to self-sufficiency involves not just huge costs but greater dangers and smaller ambitions. Europe would be downgrading from heavily subsidised, top-quality American defence to a patchier and riskier homegrown version. It would mean dumping dreams of global influence (in our case, goodbye to aircraft carriers, the Falklands, the Gulf, Australia) and focusing solely on the narrower task of countering Russian aggression.
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