US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia
ft.comEU countries should purchase fewer US weapons in the equivalent amount.
We're getting there, takes time for EU defense to spin up.
> We can keep going. In March, a leading Danish defense official acknowledged his country’s F-35 purchases, but expressed regret over the decision. “[B]uying American weapons is a security risk that we cannot run,” Rasmus Jarlov, the chair of Denmark’s parliamentary defense committee wrote on social media, adding: “We must avoid American weapons if at all possible.”
https://www.defensemirror.com/news/40014
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-35-has-a-double-tr...
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/switzerland-weighs-cuts-...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/f-35-fig...
They should certainly up their own defense capabilities.