The brutal pivot of the United States foreign policy since the return to the White House of Donald Trump is an earthquake that shakes the staff as well as all actors in the European defense industry. Beyond the hole that could represent the withdrawal of 20,000 American soldiers from the continent-this figure, advanced by certain officials of the Pentagon, would mean a return to the pre-war staff in Ukraine-, it is the increasingly pronounced alignment of Washington on the interests of Moscow which arouses a lot of concern and has started, in many capitals, a new examination of means of limiting the dependencies.
At the end of the meeting in Paris on Wednesday, March 12, of the ministers of defense of the informal group known as “E5” (Poland, Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy), created in the aftermath of the election of the American president, the Minister of German Defense, Boris Pistorius, said that he had proposed, since mid-February, a “Roadmap” On the subject of the American defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. A document intended to try to organize the new “Sharing the burden” claimed by Washington, while avoiding creating “Capacitarian gaps” and allow a transition “Progressive to know who does what and compensate for losses”. The “rearmer Europe” plan, presented on March 4, by the European Commission with the aim of raising up to 150 billion euros for new investments in the markets, is part of the same spirit.
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