Macron Calls for ‘Euro Army’ to Defend Against US, Russia, China

• Is it game over for USA hegemony over Europe? YES! Is it game over for NATO? YES! Macron’s statement of ‘defend against (even) United States’ is startling. Such public statements are not made by friends, loyal allies.
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• Macron Calls for ‘Euro Army’ to Defend Against US, Russia, China
  by https://www.presstv.com/
  French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the establishment of a “real European army,” claiming that Europe has been the chief victim of a recent US decision to scrap a major nuclear arms pact with Russia.
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  “We will not be able to protect Europeans if we don’t decide to have a real European army,” Macron said in an interview with Europe 1 radio on Monday. He said Europe had to defend itself in a “more sovereign way” and without depending “only on the United States.”
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  Macron’s remarks came after US President Donald Trump confirmed late last month that his administration planned to abandon the landmark Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia over claims that Moscow has violated the Cold War-era pact, further vowing American development of such armaments.
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  The INF, which was signed in 1986 between then-US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, allowed the US to counter Chinese moves to build up arms in the Pacific but prevented Washington from deploying new nuclear armaments in response.
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  ‘Protection even from the United States’
  Macron called for “protection from China, Russia, and even from the United States of America,” implying that Trump’s recent decision to withdraw the US from the INF Treaty would put European security at risk from the US side, too.
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