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Trump’s Plan To End Europe’s Free Ride on Defense Is Working

Paltry service numbers are not only an indication of military unreadiness, but a symptom of widespread European unwillingness to fight.

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The leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, at Berlin, February 24, 2025. AP/Martin Meissner
DANIEL McCARTHY
DANIEL McCARTHY

President Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working.

The center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats in the Bundestag, and the party’s leader, Friedrich Merz, pledges that once he becomes chancellor, “My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA.” 

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DANIEL McCARTHY
DANIEL McCARTHY

Mr. McCarthy is a vice president at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the editor-in-chief of its magazine Modern Age: A Conservative Review. He is also a regular contributor to the Spectator’s World edition. He has a long association with the American Conservative, and his writing has appeared in an array of publications, including the New York Times, USA Today, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, Reason, the Daily Telegraph and the New York Post.

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