“We must realize that the European project, despite all its faults, has produced security between Europeans. There is a bias in what I say: in fact, this has justified the underinvestment of Europeans in their own defense and security, and This is a long-term historical phenomenon for which we are paying very dearly.
We must recognize that successive American administrations – this is not unique to the Trump administration – that the Eisenhower administration was already saying it: you must spend more on your defense, because it is both the condition for a balance within the Atlantic alliance, and the The United States is not intended to carry this burden forever. Well, here we are.
Except that we are entering this moment in a very conscious way, very politically constructed – in France since 2017, in Germany since 2022. So there is already this gap, but fundamentally Europeans are entering this dimension one generation after the others in terms of strategic competitor. The others have rearmed very significantly since September 11th. We are therefore a generation behind in terms of military spending, and therefore in terms of understanding the danger of the external environment.
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