French President Emmanuel Macron on April 25 urged other European Union states to strengthen their defenses and to reconsider their role on the global stage. “There is a risk our Europe could die. We are not equipped to face the risks,” Macron said during a speech at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Macron stressed that Europe now “lacks ambition” and operates “too slowly” in a fast-changing world full of challenges such as war, increasing trade competition, and energy scarcity, among others. Europe is now “divided,” he said, and needs to become a superpower that can defend its borders with l…