The second Trump administration has seen an aggressive restoration of “big stick” foreign policy. In just two months, Trump has already sparked trade wars with Canada, Mexico and the EU, threatened to annex Greenland and pull the US out of NATO, opened negotiations with Russia to reach a cease-fire in Ukraine, and suspended military aid to Kyiv.
Understandably, this posture is cause for alarm across European states, who have now made continent-wide rearmament a top priority. On 4th March the European Commission launched the ReArm Europe Plan, a revolutionary package of measures that aims to boost EU defence spending by €800 billion over a period of four years.
