And not just in defense, as J.D. Vance scolded today in Munich, but we’ll get back to that point later. Now that Donald Trump has returned to office to pursue his America First foreign-policy objectives, the EU suddenly realizes that America will no longer prioritize Eurozone security to the historical norm. That message came through loudly and clearly in remarks by Vance and Pete Hegseth relating to Ukraine, which the new administration makes very clear will be an EU security challenge and not an American security challenge.
And that means that the days of America indirectly subsidizing EU’s welfare states are over. EU Commission chair Ursula con der Leyen tacitly admitted that when proposing to create an emergency exception to debt levels in order to right-size European common defense — a step that Europe should have taken decades earlier:
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