Europe must increase its military deterrence

France’s army chief, Gen. Fabien Mandon, last week pushed the country of 246 cheeses, as Charles de Gaulle once described it, into an explosive situation. Mandon told the nation’s mayors: “If our country wavers because it is not ready to lose its children … or to suffer economically because the priority has to be military production, then we are indeed at risk.” He used these declarations to highlight the potential for a military confrontation with Russia. The backlash was immediate and criticism from political figures across the aisle qualified it as reckless warmongering.

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