Mar 12, 2025
Seeing as European defense spending has favored US weaponry, the American pivot away from NATO will cost its industries. The Big Five (Grumman, etc.) are woefully overstuffed with DoD cash, and have had DC sewed up for decades. They are not ready for what's coming, especially since European defense firms are going to grow in innovation and financial power.
Yes, I suppose Trump did the EU a favor, but at the expense of the USA, both in hard and soft power. It will add to the costs of his harebrained tariff wars.