The French newspaper "Le Monde" said that the United States and Europe had not reached such a rapprochement as they are now, because of their support for Ukraine after the ties between them were almost completely severed, until it was said that the Americans are from Mars, in reference to the adoption of War, Europeans from the peaceful Venus.
And the newspaper stated, in an editorial by Jill Paris, that the Americans saw war as an analogy for strength, while the Europeans relied on trade ties and international settlements to keep armed conflict away from the rules of international relations, and they dreamed of lasting peace inspired by the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, while the Americans clung to their vision of a chaotic world. .
Everyone is from Mars
As for today, 20 years after the Iraq war that divided the two continents, the war has become in everyone's minds, and everyone has become from the nature of Mars, so that Germany, citing the "change of the times", was able, as an immediate result of the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to create a fund of 100 billion euros to make its army The "Bundeswehr" is the leading army in the European Union, which it could not do before, despite the belief of its former chancellor, Angela Merkel, in the need for the European Union to take "its fate in its hands," and this means abandoning the comfort guaranteed by the American military umbrella.
Rather, the shift - as the writer sees - extended towards Asia to Japan, which adopted a new defense doctrine last December, after it renounced any form of war promotion after the defeat of 1945, due to its feeling of new or renewed threats associated with China, North Korea and Russia. , awakened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
reservations
Despite the unprecedented support provided by Europe and the United States to Ukraine, and the escalation of voices that time is not in Kyiv's interest, this desire collides with two reservations: the first is tangible, which is that Ukraine has exhausted in one week the equivalent of the United States' production of missiles within a month, and the second is the possibility of an accident. An escalation that ends in drifting away from the original goals, for fear of repeating the disastrous intervention of the United States in Somalia.
The writer concluded that the transformation in Europe has become necessary due to the years of strategic indifference it has gone through, and the collapse of the peaceful world order model on which it relied, but it will be useful only on the condition that it does not prevent one from thinking about war and its potential pitfalls.