Make European Defense Great Again: Inside the EU’s Plan to Rearm
Simon Whistler · March 14, 2025 · 12 min video · Europe & NATO
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Just a few years ago it would have been unthinkable. As recently as last month, you would have expected it to end with platitudes and no observable action. But on this time, on Thursday, March the 6th, an emergency summit brought together all 27 leaders of the European Union for crunch-time talks on raising defence spending.
The backdrop was the Trump administration's escalating cut-offs of Ukrainian capabilities and loud noises from Washington about refusing to protect fellow NATO members. "Well, I've said that to them.
I said, 'If you're not going to pay, we're not going to defend.'" Noises that of most in Europe convinced the US will not just abandon them, but become actively hostile.
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