ABC News reported on March 11th German Chancellor Angela Merkel is endorsing the development of a joint European aircraft carrier, as suggested by her party’s leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The news came as heightened plans for an EU Army go forward, and as France and Germany work on European combat aircraft for EU Air Force.
Merkel said, “the next step could be to start on the symbolic project of building a common European aircraft carrier” to supposedly underline the EU’s global security role. But any naval historian or expert will tell you, aircraft carriers are offensive systems, weapons intended to project power. Let me illustrate by citing from the definitive resource on naval power, Jane’s Information Group (PDF) on the role of aircraft carriers today:
“The carrier and its embarked air group continue to offer a uniquely mobile, flexible, reconfigurable, and truly independent platform for sustained operations at reach. These advocates further claim that the carrier, through its ability to enable the projection of tactical air power independent of access, basing, and overflight rights endures as a ‘platform of necessity’ in an era of expeditionary operations where host-nation support may be unavailable or comes with significant political and/or military constraints and risks attached.”
The world’s definitive authority on weapons systems, Jane’s goes on to define the role of aircraft carriers as “political instruments by which to demonstrate diplomatic posture and military resolve.” But in a worst-case scenario, the carrier group is the key instrument of military conquest. So, Chancellors Merkel’s latest sorte into militarism is further assurance that the European block is embarking on a strategy of “hard power” to achieve EU goals. This POLITICO report supports my contention, so:
“Policymakers across the Continent finally agree that hard power — long viewed as antithetical to the EU’s raison d’être — is now essential to the bloc’s survival.”
But why is hard power essential to the EU’s survival? This is the question the average person will ask when confronted with this bizarre aggressive reality. The answers, though convoluted and obscured by media and think tanks in Washington, are not so difficult to understand.
The European Union is falling apart. A wonderful and idealistic union of peoples ended up a dark blot in history for millions of Europeans who once believed. This is so not because a unified Europe was a bad idea, but because a free and equal confederation was never the real reason for creating the block.
So, if we assume France and Germany have the most to win or lose from continued EU cohesion – stamping out EU tin soldiers, tanks, and aircraft carriers is a foolproof way of ensuring this. Merkel, Macron, and the people who control them MUST have the means to create EU cohesion – their financial mafia tactics have bled hundreds of millions of their legacy already. A visible police force, unified militarism against Russia or other mythical threats, commonality of fear must be amplified. This is reason-one.
Cohesion and control are important for the rulers of Macron’s and Merkel’s EU society, but the new EU militarism is aimed at a far more dangerous goal – that of energy and resource conquest. Europe is the most unsustainable continent in the world right now. There are no resources to fuel a population already sapped dry by the Germans, the French, Brits, Scandinavians, and American banksters. For those who would argue, allow me to prove out my point starting with this report from the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) entitled “Europe must be sustainable – or it will simply not be.” In the report EESC President Luca Jahier encapsulates the problem for all of Europe with regard to getting to a sustainable footing for the future:
“The challenges we face today are numerous and unprecedented. The word we hear more and more is “urgency”. We need to act now. There is no time to lose. There is no plan B.”
While Europe’s actuaries, bankers, and political puppets squabble over trade policies and so forth, the bitter reality is that society is almost totally oil and energy dependent. And Europe does not have any oil to speak of. In the halls of power in Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, the big brains have all hashed this out. They just don’t want public chaos and panic, so you don’t know about it.
The bottom line is, Russia has been cordoned off as an energy or food supplier by US-Europe sanctions and aggression. China and other Asian players have their own sustainability wars to fight. And America is into a kind of fascist isolationism of its own. The Europeans have nowhere to turn for the gas and electricity it takes to run society. And when I say “the Europeans,” I mean France and Germany primarily.
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