Europeans to fill almost all gaps left by US in NATO defence plans, source says

You are correct, but it is a challenge to get the European countries to cooperate. I’m glad that they have filled the gaps this quickly.

I’m not sure about other countries but Sweden has been involved in several big weapon deals with other European countries lately, buying frigates from France and selling airplanes to Ukraine and submarines to Poland.

Give it another 24 hours, they’ll cook up a new one.

I don’t believe that the US is that stupid. The EU accepts the tariffs to balance the trade deficit even though digital goods are excluded so that it becomes raw profit for the US, the EU can’t tax the internet giants and the EU allows data storage in the US, knowing that the US is spying on it. We are starting internet user surveillance, using US software.

There should be more than the military split if the US is so unreliable.

However, the EU only has increased the defence spending but otherwise stays on the side of the US.

Then there is one big strategic goal for the US, to contain China.

If the EU is going to help the US with that goal then the EU will need all the weapons they can get and the EU needs a good justification.

So can we be sure that it is indeed a self-own and not a new form of deception?