Interesting perspective. But the idea that the European leaders could achieve this level of cooperation is fanciful. We're just too far off for me to judge this anywhere near plausible.
But tell me a month ago that France would be contemplating 5% defence spending, I'd have said that was fanciful, so who knows.
I think we need to be ready to go toe-to-toe with the Russians before we can realistically go through with a threat like that. That means being able to secure the European boarder without a US backstop.
You've got to expect if we did that the Americans would cease providing weapons systems updates, aerial support access, deny us future military spending, and so on. So this would require our industrial defense space up to be up and running before we can take actions like that.
There was actually a really good piece on this on Ukraine the Latest yesterday on European defence co-operation with Mike Martin being interviewed. Talking about who can specialise, and where we can have greater integration to scale up quickly. |  |
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