Bluster. They are trying to look decisive and like they have actual stances on anything that isn’t drip-fed them through Israeli and US lobbyists, and capital interests. They want to cover up the fact that they have eviscerated their democracies, plundered their public sectors with generations of austerity, effectively banned any type of opposition to neoliberalism and determined to not act against Israel regardless of how profane the human cost of their crimes. These are not people with vision and purpose. They are circling the drain and trying to not raise any alarm that their whole society is circling with them. Whatever awaits Europe, it is not going to be a world power, let’s be clear. Without colonies Europe has nothing. Which is whatever. The west is dying and it’s about time.
Grok must have burned out a few GPUs thinking up this scheme.