Please don't pretend to misunderstand a point just to manufacture the opportunity to reply in bad faith.

Nobody in EU is saying the EU should clean up others' mess around the world, people are just saying the EU should be busy building domestic capacity and capabilities to insulate itself from the issues caused by others around the world, such as securing domestic energy supplies so that the next time the USrael blows up the middle east, the EU can just eat it no issue.

US is so monetary rich and energy rich that they can afford to blow up the middle east every 10 years with little domestic consequences for them, and still have enough gas to drive their Ford F-450s Super Duty to Walmart, heat their pools and AC their homes to 16C, but EU is so energy starved that securing energy independence should have been a national security issue for the past 20 years already, not since 2022.

And not just energy, EU is exposed in other areas as well (SW, AI, semiconductors, agriculture, etc), and again, it will only wake up at the 11th hour when US or China twists their arm in some international dispute. But politicians instead of focusing on securing these vulnerabilities, are busy focusing on controlling people's privacy, which is what EU citizens and commenters here are criticizing.