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Created: 2025-07-18 10:20:00 UTC

🇩🇪🇺🇸 GERMANY TO U.S: “YEAH OKAY, WE WERE KIND OF FREE-RIDING”

Chancellor Merz just said the quiet part out loud: Europe’s been leaning way too hard on the U.S. for defense: 

"We know we have to do more on our own and we have been free-riders in the past.

They're asking us to do more and we are doing more.

We are on the phone once a week; we are coordinating our efforts. 

One issue is the war in Ukraine, and the second is our trade debates and tariffs."

Source: BBC

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