“Trump’s security priorities lie elsewhere” - this is sane-washing, ffs. Just yesterday I argued with self-proclaimed MAGA people (or maybe undercover Russian trolls?) on YouTube. Both argued, that Russia is by far the better partner for the US, because (quotes):

“Europe is weak and has nothing to offer”,

“Europe is a parasite”,

“Europe is actively destroying the US”,

“Europe is friends with Biden!!”,

“EU is not a democracy, but an autocratic dictatoraship”,

“Russia is a real save heaven, a conservative and functioning democracy”,

and my favourite: “Europe will have no other choice than come begging on its knees for US oil. Then Europe will finally be where it eff’ing belongs.”

MAGA consists of nothing but hatred. And that hatred flows right where Fox and Friends point their finger at. Right now, that’s not Russia, nor China, but the democratic strongholds, like Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Europe, etc. - the US was lobbied so intensively by big tech and big oil, that it now has a serious problem with foreign countries being democratic or having checks and balances. And the MAGA folks are nothing but tools for those neofascists.

It is not just Trump. MAGA, Vance, Thiel, Musk, and others will probably still be there when Trump is gone.

It’s interesting to see how this Cyprus conference will further interpret, give substance to, and develop EUs security and competitiveness using EU’s Article 42.7 , with a new policy and maybe budget.

Head of EU states will need to do an extreme political balancing act, whether when and how an EU framework will provide more value to your money compared to individual solo memberstates expenditures. Money can only be spent once, either national or on EU level, and this will decide the EU future and shape it’s geopolitics.