Only about a third of European defense spending goes to the US. Europes struggles to ramp up production have been an ongoing story for many years now.

There is still about a trillion dollars of NATO defense spending to replace if Europe does not want to be reliant on America. Doable, but spending a third of that on American equipment wouldn’t help matters.

Perhaps if Europeans got an earlier start, instead of ignoring nearly two decades of warnings and a clearly deteriorating security situation, they wouldn’t need to care so much about US policy. Better late than never.

https://economist.com/europe/2025/12/01/europe-is-going-on-a... from The Economist