Ukrainians expect EU to protect country's 'independence and territorial integrity'

[The Magistrate]

18. NATO Is Not A Global Body, Ma'am

It is the vehicle by which European nations co-operate in military matters. As Europe comes closer to genuine federation, it will be an agency of, or the model for an agency of, that government to exercise executive military authority. They would be wise to make it a solely European body by that time; the United States certainly has no role to play in a Federated States of Europe, particularly not in its military arm. They will have to provide themselves with an adequate military capacity, but Europe as a whole is quite capable of that.

I do not see how Europe coming to a federation of European states amounts to global world government, or to any nefarious or dangerous thing. I view it as the completion of an evolution to peaceable co-existence among themselves the nations of Europe have embarked on since the harsh lessons of the two world wars showed the dangers and folly of their previous condition of anarchic rivalry. This is a political and economic development which has been in train for at least sixty years, and will doubtless need a couple more decades to complete.