EU - the EU needs more defence autonomy, even while the US remains an important ally - they can not be in control of EU defence policy or foreign affairs for that matter.

The Aukus deal shows the need for more military collaboration between EU states but the US remains an indispensable partner.- 

On the same evening French president Emmanuel Macron found out that the US had secretly struck a defence deal with Australia that cut France out of a submarine contract, he announced a military triumph of his own. Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, leader of the terrorist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, had been killed “by French forces”. The coincidence was an awkward one for Macron. To him, the Aukus deal was clear vindication of the argument that France, and Europe, must build a defence alliance that is not dependent on a fickle US. Yet the assassination of a leading militant was a French military success that Macron well knew owed much to its superpower ally across the Atlantic.

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