International conference by the CJG "Should the EU prepare for a war with Russia?": the findings

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"According to the Chief of Staff of the French army, France, the EU's leading military power, would not be able to sustain a high-intensity war like the one in Ukraine for more than a week. As for England, it would not hold out for more than 2 months against a large-scale war."

These findings, and many others, were made during the CJG's international conference "Should the EU prepare for a war with Russia?", which brought together leading military and geopolitical experts and attracted nearly 300 people to Brussels a week ago.

The conference was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hadja Lahbib, and closed by the MR President, Georges-Louis Bouchez.

The dozen or so experts unanimously agreed that Vladimir Putin will not stop there if he wins in Ukraine. Other wars will probably follow after Ukraine (Moldova, Georgia, the Baltic states, etc.)... Will we be ready?

At this stage, we are still living too much under the American military umbrella. Yet a great deal could change if Trump is elected. Even if that does not happen, the United States will probably shift the theatre of operations to Asia in the coming years. We must urgently strengthen our defence and reorganise it at European level.

The left is responsible for a drastic reduction in defence spending: the share of GDP allocated to it fell continuously from 1985 (3.1%) to 2017 (0.88%). The Swedish government has reversed the trend, but there is still a long way to go. Unlike the left-wing parties (PS, Ecolo, PTB), the MR has included the 2% GDP target in its programme.

Moreover, left-wing parties in Belgium and Europe have for years been undermining our energy independence, particularly by reducing our nuclear fleet, which has increased our dependence on Russia. The same applies to Germany.
Georges-Louis Bouchez concludes: "We at the MR are convinced Atlanticists, but our best ally, like any country, can have interests different from our own. The best way to be friends with a country is certainly not to be dependent on it, but to be its partner. And to be a partner, we must strengthen ourselves militarily."