"Later, everyone should realize that this cannot continue. Europe seems helpless," says Süddeutsche Zeitung. due to the fact that an effort to launch a diplomatic process with Iran by the German abroad Minister Johanna Wadephula along with his colleagues from Paris and London was deprived of any connection to reality.
German press on the weaknesses of European policy
And since Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer are incapable to communicate anything more than acknowledging reality in a carefully prepared message after the US attacks on Iran's atomic facilities [...] "In the mediate East and in Ukraine, others are just setting out directions, making decisions on immense consequences for safety and prosperity on the European continent," the commentator points out.
He adds: "If Europeans talk for diplomacy in this situation, it will be heard in both the mediate East and Russia only if it is supported by force. If Europe wants to be taken seriously diplomatically, it must be reinforced militarily."
According to "Nürnberger Zeitung", the American president, full aware that he did what many had no courage to do, does not miss any chance to diminish Europeans. "His conduct makes America seem powerful again, but outside Israel it gives emergence to fear alternatively than joy due to the fact that it ignores global law," the regional diary points out. And he states, "If the world's politics stay so ruthless, it will shortly not be worth even the paper on which it was all written after planet War II."
"No substance where the planet is burning, Europeans are just looking at it astoundingly. In any case, the president of the United States could not show his partners what he thought of them in a more awesome way," says "Augsburger Allgemeine". While Germany, France and the United Kingdom were negotiating with the Iranian abroad Minister in Geneva, the president of the United States fueled his strategical B-2 bombers and made a decision, the consequences of which fewer people could predict.
While in Switzerland political phrases were formulated, Washington created facts. The weakness of European abroad policy is becoming permanent. "Whether it is Israel, the war of Russia against Ukraine, or the relation with China's rival – the European Union sits at a child's table and fights with words that no acts follow," we read.
The regional diary "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" writes: "The Europeans must one more time ask themselves whether the United States truly inactive represents European interests. Although the demolition of Iran's atomic program can be welcomed, At the same time, Europe must fear the consequences of this preventive war on global law.
Experts point out that in the future any war can be started with a justification for preventing the alleged threat. Washington might not care. However, Europeans must not be indifferent. After all, Moscow besides justifies its aggression on Ukraine with safety reasons".
