But eyewitnesses to the history of the last decades should remember the situation and prevailing moods of 1983: the height of the war in Afghanistan, the destruction of the South Korean Boeing in the Far East, the beginning of the deployment of American Pershing missiles in Germany and etc. [...] Once the political dust of the French and German elections settles down, European leaders and their counterparts in the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan will need to address not only the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also many of the assumptions that guided Western post-Cold war policy, and the causes of the rise of populism. [...] The end of the war, understood as the end of the military phase of the struggle, will not mean the end of the ongoing conflict. [...] The European Union The conflict with Russia and the clear political-military domination of the United States (the EU's dependence on the US) will result in the development of the debate on the further integration of the Union and increasing the effectiveness of its external influence, not only in the ‘soft’ dimensions (development aid, foreign economic policy etc.), but also on its defense and pow. [...] (2) A second scenario would consist of a refoundation through a profound reflection on the project and the functioning of the European Union, leading to the integration of the factors of a world that remains, contrary to the dominant thinking in Brussels, marked by conflicts of interest and the importance of military force.
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