First of all, it is not that relevant anymore, but Trump makes for great news stories, which create a lot of clicks. We are probably at the point, that the US needs to invade Ukraine to end that war for Russia.

Other then that the US still sanctions Russia, which is helpful. They also sell weapons to Europe and especially Ukraine, which are hard to replace(Patriot missiles for example). Also it is really useful to have the US at least pretend to want to defend Europe. Then you have the massive economic war going on and that actually hurts Europe.

So Europe seems to kiss Trumps ass, while working pretty hard on alternatives. Part of that is financing Ukrainian drones to blow up tankers and other export facilities to replace sanctions. European weapons industry needs more capacity and some capabilities to US weapons, which is being worked on right now(for Patriot that is more Aster missiles for SMAP/T and Iris-t SLX for example). As for the tariff war, we currently see the massive trade deals with Mercosur and India to replace the US somewhat.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Intelligence and communications

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Last I heard 70% of the intelligence was also coming from Europe. Which has been a very fast changeover from last year where it was almost all American.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

France has a lot of spy satellites. Part of why they didn't follow the US in Irak.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not a lot of intelligence in the US government these days.