President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has taken a troubling turn. Her recent support for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s position—that Ukraine should be allowed to strike deep into Russian territory with long-range Western missiles—coupled with her call to allow Kyiv to manufacture Western arms under license, marks a dangerous escalation in both rhetoric and policy.
In doing so, Metsola risks becoming known not for statesmanship, but for militaristic fervor—Europe’s ‘Empress of Battles,’ as some critics now label her. This is no compliment. It reflects growing alarm over the direction she and other hawkish EU voices are taking the continent.
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There is a crucial difference between defensive aid and endorsing offensive strikes that could cross red lines and provoke direct confrontation between nuclear powers. Even NATO leadership has treaded cautiously on this front. Metsola’s position not only abandons this caution—it amplifies the risk of uncontrolled escalation.
More concerning still is her push to allow Ukraine to produce Western weapons under license. This signals a shift from temporary military support to a long-term vision of arming Ukraine as a proxy manufacturing hub. It’s a vision that entrenches militarization over diplomacy, and suggests a Europe preparing for indefinite war, not peace.
This direction is profoundly out of step with the EU’s founding principles. The European Union was built as a peace project in the aftermath of global war—an institution meant to prevent precisely the kind of large-scale conflict we now risk stoking. For the president of its Parliament to align herself with maximalist, hard-power solutions undermines both the EU’s values and its credibility on the global stage.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said “it is about damn time” for Europe to dramatically ramp up military spending and aid to war-torn Ukraine.
President Metsola does not speak for all Europeans. Across the continent, millions want a just peace, not an arms race. They want to see diplomacy revived, not shelved. Her statements reflect a narrowing of strategic imagination: a belief that more missiles, more factories, and deeper involvement in the conflict are the only viable path forward.
But leadership must mean more than force. It must also mean restraint, vision, and responsibility. At a time when the humanitarian toll of war continues to rise and geopolitical tensions grow sharper, what Europe needs is not an “Empress of Battles” but a steward of peace.
Metsola with her ally drug addict Zelensky
If the European Parliament is to maintain its legitimacy as a democratic institution representing diverse views, it must resist this dangerous drift toward escalation. Supporting Ukraine should never mean discarding diplomacy. Europe’s role should be one of principled mediation and de-escalation—not long-term militarization.
We must ask: are we building peace, or simply prolonging war?
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Nobody investigates who she speaks in the name of no one? And how come a speaker of the lower house has this power?