Irish neutrality is a good example for Europe

With EU Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, calling for a “common European army” as a “deterrent against further Russian aggression on the continent”, the Lisbon Treaty hawks are coming home to roost. 

NATO’s proposed expansion into Georgia and Ukraine sparked off conflicts and Russian annexation of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Crimea.

Likewise, the establishment of a European army, in addition to a NATO one that should have been made redundant after the end of the Soviet Union, will heighten tension with Russia. Vladimir Putin is not Adolf Hitler, and what is happening in eastern Ukraine is not a rerun of 1939, right-wing racist aggression. Such dangerous right-wing tendencies are resurfacing in western political and military circles, not in the east.