The EU needs to realize we're too dependent on outside powers for EVERYTHING. We need a multi-decade plan to boost education, research and production, paid by higher taxation on profitable businesses and wealthy individuals.
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I agree, but the high global integration has also been a winning hand for Europe in the last few decades. There will be some pain and odd bed fellows.
Good luck with those half-finished airplanes, then!
That's funny. Ironically EU has more defense companies that produce e.g. fighters than US does. What EU lacks is capacity, not expertise.
US only have: Lockheed Martin & Boeing. EU have: Airbus, Dassault Aviation & Saab.
What I'm alluding to is that most arms technology in Europe is produced collaboratively with components from both the EU and the United States, meaning that European countries as of right now aren't capable of cutting out US-produced components without at the very least procuring some kind of replacement.
That is true, but it's primarily bureaucratic issue as there are active contracts which make switching a slow process. EU is actively working on this, even offering to pay penalties for breaking contracts early so companies can switch to sovereign suppliers as part of the new Readiness 2030 plan. And since most compoments even those manufactured by US companies are manufactured in EU or UK jurisdiction it's somewhat a non-issue unless US government decides to directly intervene into private US defense companies business and orders them to do something or nationalize them.