Von Der Leyen Hand-Wrings About Trump “Raw Power” @Venezuela Silence
(ZH) – EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned Wednesday before the European Parliament that the 27-member EU must accelerate efforts to strengthen both its economy and its defenses, as it confronts a shifting global order shaped by what she called “raw power.”
She took the opportunity to caution Washington and President Trump over his Greenland ambitions, saying that tensions between supposed “allies” over Greenland risk strengthening the West’s geopolitical rivals. Indeed, over in Davos, the Greenland question and US rhetoric has completely overshadowed efforts at furthering the Ukraine peace deal. But sadly truce efforts have in reality been going nowhere anyway.
“The shift in the international order is not only seismic, but it is permanent,” she told lawmakers, presenting as a pressing example the “volatile situation” surrounding Greenland, Russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine which is plunging it into darkness, as well as rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific.
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