capabilities and content to rely

Particularly in the immediate post-cold war years, Europeans were reluctant to invest in their military capabilities and content to rely on American protection and economic interdependence. As the US commentator Robert Kagan wrote in 2002, “Europe’s rejection of power politics, its devaluing of military force as a tool of international relations, have depended on the presence of American military forces on European soil […] American power made it possible for Europeans to believe that power was no longer important.” He concluded: “on major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.” The EU’s European Security Strategy สล็อต