Indeed. And this is not only valid for ASML and chips but also for Ukraine. Europe doesn't know where its interests are, cannot defend them, and in fact is even

Indeed. And this is not only valid for ASML and chips but also for Ukraine. Europe doesn't know where its interests are, cannot defend them, and in fact is even unsure about its own identity- EU countries make strategic deals with non-EU ones (eg. Macron involving the UK in defence plans) while trying to isolate other EU members (Hungary, Slovakia). In the European media there is a constant confusion between EU and Europe, as if the political union and the geographic expression were interchangeable terms. In this scenario it is absolutely trivial for the US to impose their own will on the EU. We act selflessly not out of a sense of responsibility or altruism but out of an actual lack of sense of self. And the current administration is so sure of the persistence of this state of things that has no trouble whatsoever antagonising the EU with threats and demands- they know we'll never get our acts together in any case.