[dividedbyzero]

Today it's Ukraine and F35s, who and what will it be in a year? I suppose European governments are taking a long hard look at strategic dependencies on the US right now, like the whole economy running on top of Microsoft and Google and other US-made SaaS. If all of that went dark at once, I honestly don't know how some of the larger companies I know could keep operating. They all have fallbacks for critical infrastructure obviously but those are US-made, too...

[jopsen]

In practice it goes both ways...

Lots of critical things for the US is made exclusively in Europe.

Lots of medicin that people rely on daily would be unavailable if EU/US trade broke down completely.

[generic92034]

Adding to this:

About half of the US companies over a certain size run on ERP software from an European vendor. And it is not trivial at all to change that, even if they wanted to.

[touisteur]

Aside from life-saving medicine, I was thinking that the un-availability (not 'available with tariffs' but 'we're not selling it to the US anymore') of Ozempic in the US might become a political problem, maybe more so than many other trade-war hits. Maybe it's easy to manufacture it locally but the time-gap until it's up and running might be too much to swallow...

[tim333]

I think so far F16s not F35s. Though you wonder if say the UK could use F35s in Ukraine without Trump trying to turn something off.