Geopolitics
The Lajes Probe: A Spotlight on Europe's Hollow Sovereignty and Atlanticist Subservience
Portuguese prosecutors have opened an investigation into whether their government legally authorized the US to use the Lajes Air Base during the war on Iran, highlighting the legal and moral accountability of junior partners in American military adventures. This probe exposes the painful truth of hollow sovereignty within the Atlantic alliance, where European nations trade their strategic autonomy and international legal principles for the illusion of security and fear of US reprisal.
