TeaThat Russia-Ukraine War is coming to a close after three years-but not without heavy collateral damage. Eurozone, the European Union and NATO have been killed with a chemredari between the United States and Europe. It is one of the rare conflicts after World War II where all involved parties have claimed a pyramic victory.
The phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is paving the way for a ceasefire. The conversation for “permanent peace” will soon begin, including technical talks on the implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea. In addition, both sides have agreed Not to hit the goal of energy and infrastructure At this time. Russia was apprehensive with Trump’s 30-day ceasefire proposal as the forces use such stagnation rather than ending the conflict.
Despite the bottled-up talks with US vice-president JD Vance, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelanski agreed with all the conditions of Trump, returning to the conversation table like a unique son. With the end of the conflict, the United States finds a large part of Ukraine’s vital mineral funds and a major point in the reconstruction of the war-crisis infrastructure. The issue of NATO membership for Ukraine – the dispute bone between Russia and the US – has been resolved with NATO Officially slamming Darwaza on Ukraine. In fact, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had Clarified In February itself, “America does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic result of the disposal of a conversation”. Along with this, NATO has also had a lot of ‘east expansion’ abortion.
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Europe, who stood with the US in supporting Ukraine’s battle against Russia’s attack, has been given a small reverence and cool shoulder by Trump. In a surprising policy change, Washington was on obstacles with its long time with European and NATO colleagues, Moscow joining Condemning the “War of Russia against Ukraine” to vote against the United Nations General Assembly’s proposal. Now, as the US security cover goes away, European leaders have to prepare for a changed security situation. However, it is unlikely that Russia will mount military aggressive -like military aggressive on European countries.
Europe must be brave
Europe needs to be placed on a brave face on the Ukrainian front. Great Britain has already signed 100-year-old defense agreement With Ukraine, while some individual European Union members and members of the European Union NATO are allegedly funding the country to increase their defense production. ‘Danish Model’But it will have to stop soon. Putin is strongly opposed to Ukraine, and is set as pre-existing for the ceasefire. According to a statement from the White House, the Russian side has underlined many Pre -condition Including forcibly mobilization in Ukraine and resurrection of Ukrainian armed forces “.
Back from Ukraine’s financing to fill the financial zero created by the Trump administration, Europe will “be” “Only expenses require an increase Equivalent to 0.12 percent of the GDP of the European Union “. According to Brussels-based think tank Brugel,” Since February 2022, US military support in Ukraine has increased to € 64 billion, while Europe has sent € 62 billion by Europe, including the United Kingdom in Europe. In 2024, American military support was € 20 billion out of € 42 billion. To change the US, the European Union thus will only spend another 0.12 percent of its GDP – a inexpensive person. ,
To prevent Russia from committing any misunderstanding in the future, Europe must strengthen its defense preparations, shore defense production, and above, increase defense spending. Euro GDP ratio to deficit In 2022, it increased from 3.5 percent to 3.6 percent in 2023 and 3.2 percent to 3.5 percent in the European Union.
European NATO members have an additional burden of increasing defense spending, which can double the current deficit. In addition to financial challenges, European NATO members also face significant technical and lack of capacity, especially on new and modern military hardware and software such as drones and sky-rough technologies. Eurozone can also struggle to balance the increasing defense costs against factors such as aging population, social expenditure on unemployed citizens, immigration and fresh investment in a military industrial complex.
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A window for india
Can India take advantage of this situation and become a net exporter of military equipment in Europe rather than being one of the largest importers of military equipment? Five countries – America, Russia, France, China and Germany, from 2017 to 2021 were 77 percent of all arms exports in the world. Despite the indigenization of make and defense production in India, India is 23Third Among 25 defense exporters.
It takes more than slogans and sacred intentions to become a sophisticated weapon-exporting country. Higher education institutions in association with state -of -the -art laboratories and incubation centers in association with high -end modernization and automation are some ideas that require serious planning and early implementation.
If we fail to grab this opportunity, then we will not have any. Global markets are ready, but none of them have time for eternity.
Seshadri Chari is the former editor of the ‘organizer’. He tweets @seshadrichari. Views are personal.
(Edited by Zoya Bhatti)