[keiferski]

Kind of a misleading title, but an interesting article. It’s about the perception that Europeans have of the likelihood that the US could be relied upon in the event that someone attacks their EU country.

Some of these opinion polls are not particularly useful though, as for example Poland is frequently signing defense deals with the US. I’m not sure it’s all that relevant how much a western EU country feels about the prospect of being attacked, as I don’t see how Portugal or Spain or France are at much geopolitical risk compared to the eastern flank.

[mejutoco]

> It’s about the perception that Europeans have of the likelihood that the US could be relied upon in the event that someone attacks their EU country.

Look at the Denmark graph (adversarial going up). I do not think in that case it is about "the likelihood that the US could be relied upon in the event that someone attacks" but about the US itself doing that.

[rob74]

It's also interesting that, while the "ally" curve is going down for all included countries, in some countries the "partner" (which is a weaker form of ally) curve is going up to partly compensate for that, while in others (mostly southern European, plus Switzerland and, of course, Denmark), it's also going down.

[haritha-j]

One could argue B implies A :p

You can hardly expect the guy attacking you to have your back.

[flohofwoe]

> as for example Poland is frequently signing defense deals with the US

The current US administration has made it very clear over and over again that deals, contracts and agreements don't mean shit to them.