In the battle between global security and the instability promoted by bad actors, our European “allies” do not seem to simply be standing on the sidelines. When push comes to shove, they are, regardless of their intentions, siding with those bad actors.
France is showcasing this most plainly by reportedly joining Russia and China in opposing a draft United Nations resolution that would “authorize” the use of force to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Arab neighbors are the ones leading that push, with Bahrain serving as the point man. The resolution would have called for “member States, acting nationally or through voluntary multinational naval partnerships, with advance notifications to the Security Council,” to use all necessary means “to secure transit passage and to deter attempts to close, obstruct or otherwise interfere with international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz,” according to the New York Times.
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Bahrain has since watered down the resolution, calling only for countries to use “all defensive means necessary and commensurate with the circumstances in the Strait of Hormuz.” (Emphasis added). France’s squeamishness toward any kind of conflict has led it to join with Russia and China to undermine Arab states, and the United States, from dealing with a crisis caused by Iran, the world’s leading funder of terrorism and the biggest destabilizing force in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, our wonderful European allies have tried to sabotage American efforts to bring Iran to heel, preventing American planes from using allied bases across Europe during the war. Europe demands that America open the strait, but wants to prevent American use of force and doesn’t want to commit to any European force. What Europe is asking for is American surrender.
This tracks with how British Prime Minister Keir Starmer portrayed the war. When the U.S. began the campaign, Starmer came out for a press conference where he boasted about how the United Kingdom would not contribute to the effort. In that very same press conference, Starmer detailed how Iran was responsible for dozens of planned terrorist attacks on British soil in a given year. The takeaway from Starmer and Europe is that they know Iran is a terrorism-exporting regime that threatens Western civilization and their citizens, and they don’t care.
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The Europeans don’t care about global stability in any way, which is why they have been funding Russia’s war against Ukraine. Europe has made itself reliant on Russian energy and has refused to do anything meaningful about it, choosing to enable Russia’s destabilizing war rather than confront and fix the issue.
As we are seeing, this is the European way. European leaders gather around tables to talk and to “negotiate” and to preemptively rule out the use of force to deal with any threat anywhere in the world. They refuse to do anything that makes them uncomfortable, even if that means giving a perpetual green light to Russian and Iranian aggression. By choosing this path, Europe isn’t just choosing to stay on the sidelines in the fight for global security. It is choosing to tacitly enable the world’s worst actors, showing them that Europe won’t stir, no matter how aggressive those countries become.