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Home / Europe and Eurasia / Trump on taxes, tariffs, Jerome Powell and more
Europe and Eurasia, Grand strategy

July 16, 2024

Trump on taxes, tariffs, Jerome Powell and more

Dan Caldwell, a policy adviser at the think tank Defense Priorities, says that “it’s actually in Europe’s interest to ‘America-proof’ their defense and to start operating on the assumption that the United States has other, more urgent national security priorities, and domestic ones as well.”

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