One thing is becoming ever clearer to me. The EU/UK need to get tooled up to the eyeballs so that we are, collectively, a military force to be reckoned with.
We need to make ourselves a powerful enough unit on the world stage (I mean EU & UK combined) so if asked in the future 'could you take on Russia yourself?' we can comfortably answer 'yes'.
America revels in the fact it has the power and is seen as the leader of the free world. Maybe that narrative needs changing, and perhaps Trump, Vance etc are knowingly or otherwise helping achieve just that.