EU Defense Chief Echoes Trump’s ‘Peace Through Strength’ in Push to Rearm Europe

European Union (EU) Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius has urged European governments to ramp up weapons production, open military stockpiles to Ukraine, and adopt a “peace through strength” approach to deter Russia, echoing a phrase heavily used by U.S. President Donald Trump in his push to revive America’s military might. In an interview with the Financial Times published on May 27, Kubilius said Europe must move away from the production of sophisticated, boutique weapons that are difficult and expensive to mass produce and instead shift to cheaper systems that can be made quickly and at scale. “Europeans produce what they call ‘haute couture’ production,” he said. “Technologically very sophisticated, very advanced, very expensive, and impossible to ramp up.”...