Russia: US Seeks to Make EU Its Vassal

The declaration on cooperation signed by the European Union and NATO is further proof that the EU is under the thumb of the US-led military bloc, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

In a statement, Zakharova stated that the document, signed a day earlier, “confirms that the European Union is completely subjugated to the tasks of the North Atlantic bloc, which serves as a tool to coercively enforce US interests", RT reported.

She went on to say that “under the guise of ‘strengthening the transatlantic bond’” the declaration promotes the provisions of NATO’s strategic concept, which was adopted in June 2022.

According to the diplomat, the declaration views transatlantic security “through the lens of opposing our country, ramping up arms and military hardware supplies to the Kiev regime, increasing military mobility in the European ‘theater of war’, and further expansion of NATO.”

The document’s provisions basically formalize “the secondary nature” of the EU defense policies to those of NATO while “nullifying the EU’s claims to autonomy in this area”, she stated.

Zakharova also described the document as “another eulogy to the philosophy of Western superiority".

“It bluntly states that NATO and the EU will use all political, economic and military means ‘in the interests of our one billion citizens’,” the official claimed.

Against this backdrop, Washington’s motives are obvious, the spokeswoman said. The US wants to drag the European Union into the “global rivalry” and, should it succeed, “the Europeans would face the unenviable fate of being an American vassal”.