OPINION: Buying arms or buying peace? |
Another EU unelected official has just been screaming for EU member states to create an €800 billion fund to buy arms. How can humanity progress if this is how political leaders are thinking? There’s no talk of peace - just war.
Kaja Kallas, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is gung-ho when it comes to bullet points.
“Her task is to lead a more strategic and assertive foreign and security policy that better enables the EU to pursue its strategic interests and shape the global system … She is responsible for: strengthening Europe’s security and defence, by helping to ensure that Europe stands with Ukraine for as long as it takes, and coordinating the work to build a true European Defence Union…”
Who is catering for peace in an EU ‘serving’ 448 million people? Why didn’t the European Commission appoint a Peace Minister? The three-year bloody war between Ukraine and Russia has already claimed thousands of lives.
Donald Trump, for all his faults, and they are legion, has forced the EU to start thinking........