The Daily Populous Thursday March 13rd, 2025 night edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by donutloop

Moreover, the lawmakers added, the U.S. foreign policy shift means EU member countries have become Ukraine’s primary allies and must therefore increase military aid.

With U.S. President Donald Trump having aligned his country with Russia, the EU is facing its single most existential threat since World War II. MEPs in Strasbourg on Wednesday laid out how Europe can fortify itself.

In a separate non-binding resolution on European defense, which passed by a margin of 419 votes to 204 with 46 abstentions, the Parliament demanded that member countries and the European Commission beef up the bloc's defense capabilities amid Trump’s continuous threats to diminish U.S. engagement with NATO.

Since the start of his second term on Jan. 20 Trump has pressured Ukraine to engage in peace talks, among other things by suspending military aid and intelligence sharing. The U.S. president agreed to resume both after Ukraine on Tuesday agreed to a 30-day ceasefire; Russia has yet to respond to the deal.

To counter the Trump administration's threats, MEPs on Tuesday pushed in the non-binding resolution for a "fully capable European Pillar of NATO able to act autonomously whenever needed."

That would mean using NATO’s command structures to run operations among European member countries without U.S. involvement, leading Socialist MEP Sven Mixer argued.

-------7654321 on March 12nd, 2025 at 18:34 UTC »

Once this all plays out i am certain Trump will make it all to Putins advantage. Everything we see is theater. These autocrats know how to hide their true intentions in a fog of nonsense and confusion.

I certainly hope our european leaders have seen through their crap.

Weekly_Put_7591 on March 12nd, 2025 at 18:31 UTC »

You mean to say the same guy who blocked payment of a congressionally-mandated $400 million military aid package, in an attempt to obtain quid pro quo cooperation from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and was impeached for it during his first term, would also blackmail Ukraine during his second term? Wow I for one am just completely shocked and amazed! /s

macross1984 on March 12nd, 2025 at 18:23 UTC »

Well, of course. But Zelenskyy at least managed to make best of rotten situation by making Putin balk and having US restart aid again.