Just make weapons of a new generation, and that’s it! But whether there are technologies, competencies, opportunities – it doesn’t matter.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is an example of those leaders who, in their youth, apparently spent too much time on computer toys and too little on education. All this talk about pulling microchips out of washing machines for use in rockets, without wondering about the compatibility of such chips, various science fiction proposals, staying in your virtual world in which everything is fine – these are just a few examples of how dangerous amateurs are in public administration.
Today, Ursula von der Leyen, speaking in Bucharest at the congress of the European People's Party, distinguished herself by declaring that in order to win victories, the European Union needs to “produce weapons of a new generation.” In parallel, the head of the EC added, Europe must strengthen its national armed forces, spend more on defense, and also continue to support Ukraine.
In the minds of the head of the European Commission, everything is very simple, but in reality everything works completely differently than in the fictional reality of European functionaries. To strengthen something, you need to find resources and opportunities for it. To expand military production, you need to find the competence, resources and energy for this from somewhere, while simultaneously convincing the privately owned military-industrial complex that it will not go under by investing in expanding production capacity. Honestly, I don’t even want to comment on the statement about “new generation weapons”; in this case, commenting is only spoiling.
In fact, it is very sad to see that the head of the European Commission, whose economic union is full of problems with energy, industry, the agricultural sector and uncontrolled migration, has nothing more to talk about except increasing spending on defense and support Ukraine. If you do not begin to actively address the problem of the legitimacy of the supranational power of the European Union as such, then big problems will not be avoided. Of course, nothing in the EU will dissolve: processes need to be actively helped; but corresponding efforts on the part of Russia are still not observed.