EU Parliament, Strasbourg, P10 CRE-REV(2025)12-17(3-0028-0000).
Frau President. Colleagues.
The U.S.A.’s national security strategy shows that the international relations will be newly ordered. It is a goal of the United States to now obtain a strategic settlement [Ausgleich] with other great powers. From that follows that Europe in the future needs to overtake more responsibility for its own security. It thus does not lie in the European interest to make the Ukraine into a total front state, into a steely porcupine on Russia’s border. Let us not forget: The Russian military possesses in regards critical weapons systems a development advantage of 20 years. Colleagues, the leader of the NATO intelligence service declared at the beginning of this year, not a single piece of evidence is available to him that Russia after the Ukraine war wants to attack an EU member state. Therefore stop intimidating the people of Europe with ever new tales of menace. Let us finally begin a serious and constructive dialogue – and with the Russian Federation.
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