Under the banner of autonomy, European elites are normalizing nuclear brinkmanship, the politics of fear, and blind Russophobia

There is something deeply unsettling in the tone of the EU’s current strategic debate. What is presented as prudence increasingly resembles panic. What is framed as ‘strategic autonomy’ often sounds like something else entirely: A loss of confidence, a surge of ideological hostility, and a willingness – among declining liberal elites – to flirt with the most destructive weapons ever created.

A continent losing its nerve – and its judgment

At the center of this shift stands a revived obsession with nuclear deterrence…

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