They believe that the EU has entered the dangerous phase of politics, “fraught with potential disasters.” The development of events can lead to the “moment of Franz Ferdinand”, they say – we are talking about the murder of the Austrian Archduke in Sarajevo (Serbia) in 1914, which launched a chain of conflicts that led to the world war. Four years later, it ended with the collapse of the four empires-the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman and Russian.
The publication indicates air threats, as well as hacker and other attacks on European countries, which can be the trigger of the new World War. At the same time, the EU is difficult to coordinate a unified policy against the Russian aggressor country, and this, like inaction, can potentially serve as a factor in escalation, the article says.
At the informal summit of the EU leaders on October 1 in Copenhagen (Denmark), leaders will try to “find a balance in the field of deterrence of the Russian Federation, whose leadership is increasingly looking for risk, which will allow you to effectively manage such incidents, not allowing them to develop into a crisis or potential conflict,” the expert on defense policies in the analytical center of European said Council on Foreign Relations Rafael Loss.
Military superiors in the European Union call to state that the “low intensity” war is already coming with Moscow, and they believe that Brussels should give a signal about readiness to radically increase defense expenses, which in itself “can become part of the restraining factor”.
The diplomat participating in European discussions emphasized that the EU is in a “difficult balance, because I don’t want to scare people, but I want the leaders to be quite aware of the risks to take them seriously,” writes Politico.
