Coalition of the Useless
The four leading European states are planning a naval mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
Thomas Kolbe | April 19, 2026
The four leading European states are planning a naval mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz. This much is clear: the hot phase of the conflict appears to be over, and the key players have already made their moves.
The loss of Europe’s geopolitical power is the defining decline narrative of our time. As Europeans, we are condemned to become unwilling witnesses of continental decay. And in no field of politics does the toxic amalgam of eco-socialism, elite arrogance, and rampant infantilism become more visible than at the level of the European Union.
What we are witnessing in Brussels and the leading capitals of the EU are desperate attempts at coordinated foreign policy -- and the realization that the cooperation of powerless individual entities does not necessarily lead to better outcomes than bilateral cooperation.
That this realization must have reached the highest circles of European politics could be observed at the end of this week. The four “big ones” -- Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy -- called for a maritime alliance and the protection of the Strait of Hormuz.
Fifty additional states -- according to the initiators of this rather peculiar political camouflage -- are expected to join the European alliance. Leadership claims are naturally being made by the former maritime powers Britain and France, above all France, whose aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle may stand as the last remaining symbol of Europe’s great naval tradition at the center of these activities -- if one can even approach the Persian Gulf at all.
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