Nigel Farage has warned that President Joe Biden has a secret agenda to help the creation of an EU military.

Speaking completely to Express.co.uk, Mr Farage identified that Biden's choice to snub UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as the subsequent NATO Secretary General and push for EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ought to set off alarm bells.

Prior to her Brussels sinecure, Ms von der Leyen was the chief defence minister for Germany the place she pushed closely to create an EU military.

This included signing pacts with nations just like the Czech Republic to have a proto-EU military whereas EU mechanisms such because the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) preparations, which arrange the infrastructure for a single European pressure.

There have been issues that the UK has signed as much as a part of PESCO enabling troop motion throughout the continent and never dominated out different elements.

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Mr Farage identified that Ms von der Leyen "was a disaster" as a defence minister.

At one level German troopers needed to carry broomsticks beneath her watch as a result of that they had run out of weapons.

Mr Farage warned that Mr Biden's help for the German Commissioner was extra about his dislike for Britain and Brexit.

He stated: "Biden's distaste for us now takes on a worrying tone because if he's effectively vetoing Ben Wallace to be the next boss of NATO and we finish up with Ursula von der Leyen that's a big problem.

"Ursula von der Leyen was a disastrous defence minister.

"It almost feels like they'd like the EU to take over defence and reduce the American commitment and that is a really worrying sign."

Mr Farage stated that parts in America have wished an EU military for many years.

He stated: "Go back to 1961, to the British application to join what was then the Common Market, the CIA was heavily behind it because they thought that a United Europe would mean the Americans would not need to keep half a million men on European soil.

"So from a purely egocentric American perspective, I can totally perceive it. So one purpose is, sure, they'd be glad for the Europeans to take management of all of it, which I feel strategically might be an enormous mistake."

But on a day when President Biden reviewed the King's guard with Charles III and met with Rishi Sunak on a stopover on his way to the NATO summit, Mr Farage claimed that 13 years of defence cuts by the Conservatives have harmed Britain's reputation.

He said: "I'm afraid that we have minimize our army a lot that you just wonder if the Americans now take the Brits significantly in relation to army issues?

"Is global Britain now in military terms, after 13 years of the Tories, nothing much more than a myth?"