Euromaidan Press summarizes a Defense Express assessment that, although the United States operates more than sixty MIM-104 Patriot air-defense batteries\u2014the largest inventory in NATO\u2014it is not prepared to donate additional complete systems to Ukraine. In Senate testimony, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is quoted as saying Washington has no Patriot units to spare and is urging European allies to look inside Europe for transfers instead. The article frames this stance within a broader resource and priority squeeze: the U.S. has been shuffling batteries between theaters, including a temporary withdrawal from South Korea to reinforce deployments in the Middle East amid heightened tensions with Iran, which the piece links to the Trump administration\u2019s pressure campaign over a prospective nuclear deal. These moves, it argues, underscore limits on U.S. capacity and appetite to part with high-demand air-defense assets. In Europe, the report says most willing donors have already acted. The Netherlands, unable to assemble a full joint transfer, sent only major components\u2014a radar and three launchers\u2014rather than a whole battery. Attention now turns to Greece, which the article describes as holding six PAC-2 batteries with weaker ballistic-missile performance than newer variants; Athens is reportedly under U.S. pressure to provide at least one system. Layered onto this is what Euromaidan Press characterizes as a policy reorientation articulated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a Ramstein meeting: European security should be handled primarily by Europe, while the United States concentrates on the Indo-Pacific and is willing to sell missiles and offer modernization for payment rather than donate scarce systems. The piece also portrays President Donald Trump as downplaying Russia\u2019s troop buildup near Finland and Norway and treating Moscow-Kyiv negotiations as outside Washington\u2019s core concerns. Taken together, these elements amount, in the article\u2019s analysis, to a new security paradigm: Europe must marshal its own air-defense solutions fast enough to blunt Russia\u2019s intensifying missile and drone campaign, because the United States, even as the alliance\u2019s dominant Patriot operator, is prioritizing other regions and resisting further drawdowns from its sixty-plus battery stockpile.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Euromaidan Press reports that Washington, despite owning NATO\u2019s largest Patriot fleet, is refusing to donate more batteries to Ukraine. Citing strained global deployments, the US urges European allies\u2014possibly Greece\u2014to fill the gap as it pivots to the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[698,702,685,701,677,674,678,676],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","tag-drones","tag-finland","tag-iran","tag-kyiv","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n