David Sanger: European Leaders Are De-Risking from the U.S. Due to Trump’s ‘Unpredictable Leadership’

RUSH EXCERPT:

SANGER: “Well, think about the term to begin with, Brian. We first heard the word de-risking in relationship to China, right. This was a sort of a supply chain thing, which was to say we don‘t want to decouple from China we can‘t separate the economies but we don‘t want to be dependent on them for rare earths and critical minerals and semiconductors and so forth. But now here at Munich, which is sort of the Davos of the national security world what you heard was de-risking from the U.S. and it‘s unpredictable leadership, that is to say, President Trump and others, where you heard leaders say, we can‘t put our entire defensive strategies making them dependent”