Paris
CNN
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It’s a new day in Europe.
Gone are the halcyon years of unshakeable American commitment to Europe’s defense against Russia.
Here to stay – at least while Donald Trump is in the White House is something more transactional. And the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Europe must “step up in a big way to provide for its own defense,” US Vice President JD Vance told decision-makers in Munich in February.
Europe’s answer so far has been to pledge to boost spending at home and for Ukraine, with an eye to buying European-made armaments. But a more radical solution has also been floated: a European “nuclear…