‘Any weapon Europe buys from the US is a liability’, rearmament expert says

European NATO countries have reduced their reliance on the US for weapons imports while significantly increasing their defense spending in the past year. Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Guntram Wolff, Senior Fellow at Bruegel, says that “any weapon we buy as Europeans from the United States is a liability both in terms of technology dependence but also in terms of missing growth and domestic ecosystem that would develop”.