Originally Posted by
Asturias56
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.
Yawn. Liberal democrat economist with limited background in hard power floats idea for things he doesn't really understand. People with similar levels of understanding jump on this like tramp on chips.....