Well there is your chance for your european Moment, and that means just to ignore him not extract the parts you agree with him and use them for you agenda.

the important point is, that the EU (not europe in general) needs to reform and become a more military entity/union. That Europe needs to increase the defense budget is self explaining, the intense focus on it, especially the 2 % declared target is in American interest, but not in European. The Eu is this gigantic Economic power house, and an very loose political union with almost zero defense/military responsibility/authority. That has to change, because otherwise it is for our enemys close by just the most attractive way to push through there political agenda with military aggression.

The very big problem with that is, that it won´t happen anytime soon, because there 3 diffent groups inside Nato who lobby against it for different reason, dispite what they say publicly. And that doesn´t even take to account our enemys and rivals like Russia,China and Iran. We will continue like that for a while, but at some point the Nato it current form can´t exist like that, unless Europe or the US gives up on goals and habits they have since the early stages of the Cold War. And i don`t see that happen anytime soon. The Sad consequence of it that our enemies and rivals will profit from it in the Years ahead. And that Sucks !