It is all fantasy. They were merely suggestions (Merkel, Macron) in response to the Orange Nutters' latest outbursts. You anti-EU drama queens see visions of jackboots and brown-shirts, lol.convenient for you seeing as you happened to call it all a fantasy.
They (the Europlops) just want to see a NATO style protection whilst distancing itself from Russia and the US. Reasonable stuff seeing as the Ruskies see fit to murder people on our shores and given Trumps combative rhetoric towards Europe.
The flavour will change when the US president changes.