The Transatlantic Defense Business Politics Can’t Break

The foundations of the Atlantic alliance are shifting in ways not seen since the early days of the Cold War. Washington is no longer simply urging greater European burden-sharing: It is redefining the terms of the alliance itself. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that the era of a coherent, rules-based international system has passed. Recent U.S. talk of “taking” Greenland, and “civilizational erasure” — alongside the decision to end U.S. security assistance to Ukraine — has rattled European capitals and eroded trust as they realize that U.S. support is increasingly conditioned on ideological alignment. Yet beneath the political turbulence,

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