Borrell advocates a "coordinated rearmament" of the EU and integrating the war into its "existential horizon"

For Borrell, Russia "has already lost the war", but "Ukraine has not yet won it"

LA TOJA (GALICIA, SPAIN), Oct. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Josep Borrell, defended this Saturday the need for a "coordinated rearmament" of the European Union to prepare the community bloc for a possible war.

"We need a rearmament process that is carried out in a coordinated manner (...). My task is to plan this military development," Borrell explained during his speech at the La Toja Forum in Galicia.

For Borrell "there is no harm that is not good" in reference to the war in Ukraine: the EU must "integrate the war into its existential horizon and integrate the armed forces".

European armies now have "duplicities and redundancies". "We spend four times what Russia spends and the same as China spends and probably less efficiently," she argued.

Borrell has highlighted that the EU has been built on the basis of trade and law, but "he wanted to obviate the concept of power" relying on interdependence in trade relations and has given the purchase of Russian gas as an example.

"Today we realize that interdependence alone does not guarantee peace (...). A lot of Kant and little Hobbes," he argued in reference to the two political philosophers. "Now we realize that the unity built with convoluted agreements is not enough", she has riveted.

"We live in a dangerous world. We live in a garden surrounded by jungle. It is not enough to build protective worlds. We have to commit ourselves more to the jungle," he said. In that sense, "military instruments are not a whim." "They are necessary, essential for survival," she stressed.

For this reason, in the specific case of Ukraine, the EU "has to do more of the same: more military aid, more sanctions against Russia and more diplomatic work to convince the world."

Regarding the injection of funds to Ukraine, Borrell recalled that 2,500 million have been allocated in war aid, "something that could not be done according to the treaties", and has assured that each State on its own has provided more financing until reaching "half of what the United States gives".

Borrell has also criticized the "invalid" referendums for annexation to the Russian Federation in the eastern regions of Ukraine. They are votes "held overnight, in the middle of a country at war, without censuses or guarantees." They are a "pantomime", according to Borrell.

The head of European diplomacy has pointed out that "to trade you need two, but to wage war it is enough with one and that one is willing to do it and has done it". However, for Borrell "Russia has already lost the war in moral and political terms, but Ukraine has not yet won it."

"The war must end well in order to build peace. The war must end so that Ukraine can defend its territorial integrity and recover it and that Russia recognizes its moral guilt. We cannot ask for less, we cannot waver because what is at stake it is not the territorial integrity of Ukraine. What is at stake is our model of life," he warned.

Borrell has compared Russia to the Italian economy in global terms, even though GDP per capita is four times lower. "Russia is an economic dwarf, a big gas station where the owner has nuclear weapons."

The High Representative has focused on Russia's "resentment" with the West and has compared it to China. However, "China knows very well that it first has to have the weapons of the economy and technology. They are doing it and doing it very well."

"Russia has not achieved it and now it is trying to achieve it through armed violence. When military failure follows economic failure, what will happen to Russia?" He raised before recalling that it has nuclear weapons.