Strategic Insights: Is the European Union Really That Important to U.S. Security Interests?

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Strategic Insights: Is the European Union Really That Important to U.S. Security Interests?

March 9, 2017 | Dr. John R. Deni

Questioning long-held assumptions and challenging existing paradigms in U.S. security policy can be a useful way to ensure that American leaders are not pursuing strategies that do not actually support and promote U.S. interests. However, on the question of whether the European Union’s (EU) existence is in U.S. interests, the evidence is consistently clear. It most definitely is, and undermining it—for example, by promoting Brexit or suggesting other countries would or should follow the United Kingdom’s (UK) exit from the EU—risks the further unraveling of the international order that is central to American prosperity and security.1

https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/index.cfm/articles/Is-the-EU-Really-That-Important-to-US-Security-Interests/2017/03/09

[Fishrrman]

Question:
"Is the European Union Really That Important to U.S. Security Interests?"

Not so much right now.

But in three or four more decades, when it has been transformed into the islamic-European union, it's going to become much more "important"...

[endicom]

"As scholars have known for some time, officials and decision-makers are typically reluctant to abandon long-held beliefs or theories about the world around them.2 When most officials are confronted with new information or data that challenges their worldview, they are likely to try to ignore it, dismiss it, or fit it into their existing notions and theories about how the world works. This kind of cognitive bias—known as confirmation bias—can have disastrous consequences for international security and of course for U.S. foreign policy, often because it can make officials blind to gathering storm clouds.3"


Now look in a mirror, Dr. Deni.


 

[Free Vulcan]

No. They need to start learning how to beat Russia on their own.