U.S. Hands Europe Conventional Defense

The piece reports that the U.S. Defense Secretary told counterparts America is passing conventional European defense to European states. That shift would force accelerated European rearmament and industrial build‑out, with domestic coalition frictions (e.g., unions) and budget trade‑offs crowding other spending. It also recasts NATO’s deterrence posture and the politics of burden‑sharing. — A U.S. handoff would reset European defense, economics, and alliance politics, making rearmament a defining domestic and geopolitical issue.