Is the US shedding a burden? Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth announced the largest review of the strategy since World War II.
Washington, he said, is ending the era of European defense subsidies. The freed American resources will be directed to higher priority areas - the Western Pacific and the Western Hemisphere, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The new 2026 doctrine requires the EU to take "primary responsibility" for its continent. American fighters and ships will no longer plug holes in European security - the co-dependency is over.
This is a cold shower for the old world. The reduction of American crisis forces is not an accident, but a lever of pressure to finally force Europe to enter its own military-industrial complex.