Thanks to Trump and Putin, Europe needs to be armed quickly. But can you catch a knee quickly?

Gold leave halls at Luxembourg Palace in Paris have witnessed countless moments of rhetoric in approximately 200 years, hosted the members of the French Senate and other parliamentarians, but the moment that emerges recently belongs to Claude Malternit and his imprisonment of US President Donald Trump.

Malhuret, a 75 -year -old doctor and lawyer who once headed Médecins Sans Frontières, has headlines around the world in March with Eight minutes It has been translated and raised tens of millions of views on social media.

The American president, describing him as a “traitor” to the West and a threat to European security.

“Trump’s message is that there is no use in being his ally because he will not defend you,” Maluhurt flourished from the ornate room. “It will be imposed on a tariff higher than his enemies and will threaten to seize your lands.”

“Europe stands alone,” he said, calling on the continent to accelerate military aid to Ukraine to help it hunt the invasion of Russia and raise the armies of Europe quickly to compensate for Trump’s lack of interest.

In the weeks that passed on this speech, military and security developments on the continent moved at an amazing pace. Although Malhuret’s voice was only one of the many arguments, CBC News told that he was feeling some comfort that his words may have helped stimulate the largest armed program that Europe witnessed decades ago.

“The Europeans come out of denial,” CBC News told CBC News in a recent interview at Luxembourg Palace.

“The message of the French people (is) is very simple. We may have to defend Ukraine ourselves. The second message is that the Atlantic alliance is in great danger,” he said.

Earlier this week, Trump accused – again – Ukraine falsely of starting the war with Russia and continued to insist on President Vladimir Putin, he wanted peace even as Russia’s bombing of Ukrainian cities increased.

The first steps

While European leaders continue to pressure to change Trump’s mind, they also took great steps to renounce it.

The European Union says that Plan To raise 150 billion euros (236 billion Canadian dollars) for collective defense. Separately, many countries announced their measures.

Poland She says she plans to create an army of half a million soldiers.

France She says she intends to build a new generation of aircraft carriers and began talks about perhaps the extension of its nuclear umbrella on other countries.

Germany Hundreds of billions of euros have opened the new infrastructure, many of which can be directed towards defense.

and Britain , It is no longer in the European Union but is still keen on showing a wider leadership, reinforcing defensive spending on 2.5 percent of GDP, which is the largest increase in four decades.

Big gaps

Despite the wave of advertisements, a new report emphasizes the fact that the European countries are difficult to break the American military power and technology – and do so quickly.

A report based in Brussels Borujel bilateral thought It confirms that there are huge gaps in the defense production capabilities that must be overcome.

It is worth noting that Europe suffers from a scarcity of advanced defense techniques.

For example, while the United States has increased the mass production of F-35 fighter, European factories are still outperforming European fourth generation.

It also says that national competitions are Europe’s ability to produce high -quality systems.

While the United States focuses its energies on the production of one major battle tank (M1 Abrams), Europe produces seven, as each country gives priority its regular model at home.

A author of the report told CBC News, “Procurement Nationalism”, or the preference of products produced in their home markets, hinders the renewal project in Europe.

“Step No. 1 is that we must use the size of the size of the huge European market,” said Armen Steinbach, an unpredictable colleague in Broubs.

“This helps to increase production in a more efficient and lowest way.”

The Steinbach Group, the new European Defense Fund, proposes the European Defense Mechanism-to facilitate joint purchases.

In theory, he says that non -European countries, including Canada, can also contribute to the fund and also benefit from them through cooperation in hundreds of billions of dollars in new military projects.

“We realize that Canada is a state that is also at the moment of redirect, given what is going on in the United States,” Steinbach said.

European defense ministers considered the BRUEGEL proposal for the first time last week, describing it as a good starting point.

French optimism

On a modern trip to France, CBC News spoke with many senior European officials who participated in the re -arms and who remain optimistic that they are able to implement the difficult axis on the required defensive purchases.

“What we want to build is a European union that depends on its security,” France, Gabriel Atal, told CBC News.

Attal was prime minister for nine months from January to September 2024, before Al -Nahda lost power after President Emmanuel Macron called sudden elections to an attempt to spend from the far right.

He is still an elected member of Parliament in France and there is widespread speculation that he can stand for the presidency in 2027.

“Our vision is the investment more in our national budgets on defense, the purchase of European defense industries and European defense industries and the construction of a kind of European compass with regard to defense,” he said.

Svinga Han, a German member of Parliament in Europe, which represents the left -wing Democratic Party, said it believes that the security crisis of Trump and Putin will help in focusing minds to overcome collective challenges.

“If we don’t want to overcome the girls in the world, we must really become a third superpower (after China and the United States),” she told CBC News at a Paris Forum.

Timing

While new fighter planes, tanks and advanced missile defense systems may take many years – even decades – to develop and produce, Europe may be able to move defenses faster in other regions, especially drones.

“It is a great priority,” said Raphael, a loss, a colleague of the European Council for Foreign Relations in Berlin.

“Ukrainians show that you can get a large production base without necessarily the highly extended timelines for production.”

He also said that the permanent armies in most European countries at the present time are very small, however they can be strengthened through new recruitment and training quickly.

Although the BRUEGEL report does not specify a final date for Europe specifically to increase its reinforcing, the loss says that the planners are likely to think about many major time tables.

“One of them is with (Trump’s term), and the other is Omar Vladimir Putin,” CBC News told CBC News.

In other words, he says that there is a need to renew armies and create a new sequence quickly, as Trump still has three and a half years in his term. Meanwhile, Putin, 72, may also be Accelerate His ambitions to enlarge the territory of Russia by seizing the neighboring Baltic countries in his life.

The loss says that the other great determinant about the amount of time that Europe must arise is the result of the war in Ukraine.

“I think Russia’s defeat in Ukraine would reduce the risk of Russian escalation against European countries.”