Macron also argued that Europe had increased its dependency on the U.S. for weapons and energy and must now focus on boosting European defense industries.

I’m not surprised by this, sabre rattling appears to be in full lift off in Europe. Anyone knows, if France just happens to have a strong military production capabilities?

I believe that in the end Western Europe will do what’s best for their ruling capitalists, in my view the Covid crisis showed how split the EU is and that solidarity between nations exists mostly as a nice propaganda to sell the EU entity.