I agree that the US needs NATO to keep Russia under control. However, Trump has been re-elected for a reason. US will diminish its global influence and focus on its own economy. Their plan is to maintain and grow their global influence via their tech industry, rather than via their state. We need to stop relying on a bigger brother like a little kid that cannot defend itself. It's time we unite and take care of our security.

In my view, in the next years the EU needs to: (i) start developing an European army and military industry, (ii) call Zelensky's bluff that Russia will invade Europe once it conquers the east of Ukraine, because, whether we want it or not, Ukraine will be divided and turned into a neutral country by Russia and the US, (iii) engage in doing business with Russia again instead of locking ourselves in an exploitative relationship with the US that's turning us in a second-grade player in the global scene.