EU Don’t Need U.S.?

Hello from Munich, where your Situation Report coauthors are just barely hanging on after an arduous journey plagued by flight cancellations due to the Lufthansa strike. We’ll be on the ground at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel for this year’s Munich Security Conference (say hello if you are, too, especially if you’re NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte) with special daily pop-up editions of SitRep through Sunday. Alright, here’s what’s on tap for today. Europe plays defense as Washington waffles, a Munich check-in on the state of cyber, and some weird things happening in El Paso. Trans-Atlantic Trepidation Today’s SitRep lead author is…