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Make Europe provide for its own defense

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Published October 1, 2021 10:00am ET
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Make Europe provide for its own defense
A US soldier takes part in an exercise called "Saber Junction" at the military area in Hohenfels near Regensburg, southern Germany, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Saber Junction 14 is a U.S. Army Europe led, U.S. European Command directed, multinational, multiservice exercise that involves more than 5,800 personnel from 17 European countries. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) | Matthias Schrader

The political landscape of Europe is changing.

For the first time since 2005, Germany will have a chancellor not named Angela Merkel. Last Sunday, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) narrowly defeated Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Both parties are now attempting to negotiate coalitions that put them at the head of a new government. What does this mean for the United States?

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