https://globalsecurityreview.com/trump-and-zelensky-bad-manners-or-strategic-disaster/ A division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:44:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://globalsecurityreview.com/trump-and-zelensky-bad-manners-or-strategic-disaster/#comment-1589 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:44:13 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=30251#comment-1589 Spot on assessment by Dr. Cimbala. Yet, without maximum pressure and a brutal wakeup call by the reality from which Europe has long divorced itself, Europe will not snap out of its complacency and self-indulging negligence for not taking its security into its own hands for the past 30+ years since the Cold War was officially declared ended. But beyond defense, which is only one of the symptoms, there is a major recalibration of power plays globally, one could call it The Great Game 2.0. And Europe, unable to define itself as a strategically significant geopolitical power, doesn’t know how to exist in that new order. Europe will either adapt and step up to the plate and challenge, or become irrelevant and whither. This is a problem for Europe, and Europe alone, to solve. The challenge is multi-dimensional and the solutions are multi-layered. To stop acting like ostriches would be a good start. The ruthless attitude of President Trump is a hard medicine but a necessary evil to cure the European strategic inconsistency and geopolitical impotence. There should be no let go of the pressure until the problem is solved, otherwise, Europe will always find a way to evade it and exonerate itself from its required adjustments, however painful.

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