EU is a big customers of lots of stuff from US military vendors so US didn't exactly give things for free to the EU either.
Should have EU relied less on US and actually spend those agreed upon 2%+ of GDP like Poland, Finland and others have and be self reliant? Yes. Very much so.
We have constant autoscaling issues because of this in GCP - glad someone plotted this - hope people in GCP will pay a bit more attention to this. Thanks to the OP!
Not a question, but a testimonial: the quality of work from Peter Roberts's firm has declined in the last couple of years. We switched to different attorney this year. We've had dozens of cases for different people where they made lots of mistakes in the applications. I'm not sure why, but I would stay away from them.