The Case Against European Rearmament

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If we truly want to strengthen Europe, the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union without which stagnation will continue to erode Europeâ€™s capacities, rendering it unable to rebuild what is left of Ukraine once Vladimir Putin is finished with it.

ATHENS â€“ Inducting Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its pre-2014 borders has been the only strategic aim EU leaders have allowed themselves to contemplate since Russiaâ€™s invasion three years ago. Alas, well before US President Donald Trumpâ€™s re-election, this aim slipped into the realm of infeasibility. The writing had been on the wall for a while.

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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)

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