With US support uncertain, Europe builds better defenses

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The goal is to tap into the economic benefits that come with cooperation - to buy in bulk, buy together, and buy European - much as the EU did during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Besch said in a discussion at the Brookings Institution last week.
51% : At the same time, EU officials are working to strengthen the Continent's overall military posture after the war in Ukraine exposed "significant capability gaps" within the European defense industry, including in basics like producing ammunition, notes Sophia Besch, European program fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
51% : Russia has one-third of the population of the EU and ranks an unimpressive 44th on a recent list of the world's most technologically advanced countries, he notes.
44% : "European Union leaders, too, are taking steps to demonstrate, in the face of some serious doubts, that they can defend themselves without U.S. aid - if they must.
31% : The EU acknowledged in January, for example, that it would fall nearly 50% short of the pledge it made last year to send 1 million artillery rounds to Ukraine by March - a blow to confidence in European cooperation.

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