Even as NATO meets, Europeans are exploring a plan B
, which was created as the antithesis of a military alliance. France, in particular, has sought to use it as a counterweight to America.summit on July 11th to support it “for as long as it takes”, would Europeans still keep up the war effort?
. Europeans would have to plug gaps filled by America’s 85,000-odd troops in Europe, among them headquarters staff and 22 combat battalions . They will also have to procure the expensive “enablers”—such as air transport and refuelling, space assets and—that America supplies in abundance. All this might take Europe a decade to build up, thinks Mr Grand.
The most striking success has been Europe’s shift away from Russia’s oil and gas. The transition has been helped by alternative supplies from America and elsewhere, and the’s internal market for energy, which allows gas and electricity to be traded across borders. Much of the’s new economic arsenal is directed at China.
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