I don’t mean the EU as such, as it doesn’t have any spying capabilities, but states like the UK, France, Germany and maybe Sweden, Norway, Italy or Spain must have satellites orbiting earth to spy on adversaries, equipment to eavesdrop on communications like the NSA does, operatives on the ground…
Can they substitute American intelligence gathering, now the US is essentially trying to pull a chamberlain on Ukraine?
Peace with Russia is difficult as long as Russia isn’t interested in peace, which they clearly aren’t
Russia is interested in peace as long as it gets to dictate the terms, and install its own people in the new Russian territory.