Well-informed know that the great machine of redefining power relations at the global level is in motion. It is a great geostrategic game that passes through the regionalisation of interests and the fundamental game of energy. While Russia and Turkey form an axis (very much conditioned by the characters of the Tsar and of the Sultan), the context is that of a Eurasian region in progress.
Our interest, within and beyond the war in Ukraine, goes to the American declarations urging allies to calmly exceed the 2% defence spending. European anti-missile shields are envisaged (without Italy, France and Spain) as part of an increasing militarisation of the world.
Are we sure this is the right path? Are we sure that the arrangements of a ‘complex’ European security only go through the linearity of military investments? If everything is necessary, in our opinion something is more so if we want to look at the ‘political-strategic sustainability’ of Europe in the world. European security, in fact, passes through a common defence political project within the framework of a strategic autonomy that invests in energy, critical raw materials and new technologies.
Europe cannot continue to be a crock pot among iron pots. The Old Continent must give itself a strategic dignity as a ‘global player’. Even within the transatlantic alliance, Europe must consider Russia and Eurasia as parts of its security project. The issue is complex as the guns in Ukraine continue to fire and diplomacies confidentially look for ways out.
