Is JoeBiden’s written welcoming of a stronger and more capable Europe a sign that Washington is perhaps changing its policy? We don’t know. But for the U.S. and Europe, it’s a policy move worth pursuing, writes DanDePetris.
About 15 months ago, it looked like the relationship between the United States and France was spiraling down the drain. At that time, the Biden administration had signed the AUKUS security pact with Australia and the United Kingdom, the core tenant of which was the transfer of U.S. nuclear submarine technology to Australia. This deeply upset the French, seeing as AUKUS meant an end to their own $66 billion conventional-powered submarine contract with Canberra.
At first glance, this statement doesn’t look like a bombshell development. Successive U.S. administrations as far back as that of Dwight Eisenhower have called on the Europeans not only to increase their defense budgets but also to sustain those investments over time. The term"burden-sharing" is a popular one in Washington. Indeed, it’s hard to find a single person inside the Beltway who doesn’t at least acknowledge that Europe needs to stop penny-pinching.
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