Financial Times: “Europe already knew it had to develop its own long-range missiles. The Pentagon’s announcement on Friday that it will no longer send a battalion bringing the critical weapons as a stopgap has suddenly made that task even more urgent.”“A spat between President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war in Iran led Washington to cancel the deployment of a US contingent armed with several types of long-range weapons.”“Its abandonment, announced at the same time as a US decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany, has left the continent with a glaring security gap — one that analysts say will be met with glee in Moscow.”