EU Is Drafting Plans to Defend Its Borders as US Support Wavers
European soldiers take part in an urban combat training exercise in Germany in 2024.
Photographer: Omer Messinger/Getty ImagesThe European Union is drawing up plans to help countries fight off a military assault with or without its superpower ally, the US.
EU officials are working out how to mount a joint response if any member states are attacked, whether by conventional forces, a cyberattack, or the sorts of weaponized migration that Belarus has deployed along its border with Poland, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.