Donald Trump’s decision to cancel a planned deployment of long-range missiles to Germany has laid bare Europe’s glaring lack of a deterrent that features prominently in Vladimir Putin’s arsenal.
The Biden-era plan to deploy a battalion equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles and Dark Eagle hypersonic weapons was designed to provide Europe with Deep Precision Strike (DPS) capabilities able to strike targets inside Russia or another foreign adversary.
German defence minister Boris Pistorius said Trump’s decision to cancel the plan, which he insisted was not yet final, would be “very unfortunate and detrimental” to Germany and to Europe. It would mean that European capability gaps could “widen further”, he warned.
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