President Mattarella al 70th anniversary of NATO, two days earlier always Mattarella and the EU president Ursula von der Leyen to the State of the Union address. In the middle Aukus, the new “Born of the Pacific “ which the United States, Great Britain and Australia have given life with a “pact” that is more than a simple consultation agreement but a first step for a new governance of the Indo-Pacific area. Obviously in anti-Chinese function.
Here, there is a common thread that binds the international political events of recent days, and that descends from the new structures of world geopolitics that are emerging and that are directly linked – a little cause and a little effect – to how much happened in Kabul one month ago. Mattarella at the NATO celebration somehow returned to ask for an increase in the EU defense, explaining that it “would also strengthen NATO”, thus trying to “reassure” the United States about the birth of a European force.
“A European army – the president seems to say – is not in contrast with the alliance, on the contrary it is complementary to it”. Same thing Mattarella had always said two days ago, echoing what von der Leyen said. A need, that of a European defense force, now felt by all partners. Also because, and here we come to birth of Aukus, the United States appears to have chosen the Indo-Pacific stage to focus its efforts and interests. On the other hand it is natural: once the enemy was the USSR, so the trench was Europe and the weapons were concentrated along the iron curtain.
Now the threat comes from the east, from the Chinese Dragon, so the forces are massing in that theater. As in risiko, when you take cannons and move the board from one state to another. The consequence is that in order to count, Europe has to act alone, and is therefore at a turning point. But since “war is the continuation of politics by other means”, as the Prussian general said Carl von Clausewitz, what Europe lacks is not an army, but one common policy.
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