The French president delivered a powerful speech in America last week. Congress was dazzled, the White House enthralled. Headlines around the world tell of how France has captured the heart of America.

Packaged inside all this extravagant flattery and hyperbolic praise that wooed a nation, however, are some statements that should make people around the world sit up and take note.

“Allow me to express one last conviction,” said Nicolas Sarkozy. “Trust Europe.”

Sarkozy spoke about how a stronger Europe was coming, and how America must rely on this stronger Europe:

In this unstable, dangerous world, the United States of America needs a strong, determined Europe. With the simplified treaty I proposed to our partners, the European Union is about to emerge from 10 years of discussions on its institutions and 10 years of paralysis. Soon it will have a stable president and a more powerful high representative for foreign and security policy, and it must now reactivate the construction of its military capacities.

There it is, straight from the horse’s mouth. Europe is uniting and about to expand its military.

This is exactly what the Trumpet has been writing about Europe for years—except this statement comes from a speech from the French president to the Congress of the United States.

The EU is about to emerge from a quagmire of complex negotiations as a strong, unified and cohesive unit, intent on reconstructing its military. Even a cursory glance at history should tell us that this prospect comes with dangers. Sarkozy spoke of how the EU must be able to act as it did in the Balkans. Look at the mess the EU has made in the states of former Yugoslavia! Europe wants to be able to operate as it did in the Balkans all around the world. If we really understand what happened in Serbia, this statement should make us shudder, or at the very least sit up and pay serious attention. (For more information on how a German-led Europe annexed this area, read our booklet The Rising Beast.)

Sarkozy also spoke about his intent for Europe to increase its support of nato. “The more successful we are in the establishment of a European defense, the more France will be resolved to resume its full role in nato. … The EU and nato must march hand in hand.”

This too is an ominous development. “Russia understands something that the U.S. does not,” we wrote about this subject. “It knows that the EU is using nato to build up its own military superpower status! nato is being used as a pawn by the EU to help build its own military empire” (July 2002).

Under the guise of an ally to the U.S. in the fight against terrorism, Europe is developing into a superpower. Politically and economically, it already has considerable clout. Watch now, as Sarkozy pointed out, for it to vastly increase its military power. In January 2002, we wrote:

The masses who were tricked into believing a united Europe was to be but an innocuous union of trading partners may stand aghast at the religio-politico-military beast that is emerging from the cleverly deceitful rhetoric of decades of Eurocrats. These leaders simply took that ancient dream that went underground with the Nazis 56 years ago and breathed life back into it to the point that its hot breath will one day, soon, threaten to engulf the globe.

When Congress stood and applauded, they were applauding the idea of a stronger, unified and militarily strong Europe. Despite what they think, however, a stronger Europe will not be good for the U.S., or indeed anyone on Earth. To learn more about what a strong Europe will mean for the world, read our article “The Rise, and RISE, of Europe.”

Trust Europe? Absolutely not.