Strategic autonomy

Strategic autonomy is defined as the ability of a state to pursue its national interests and adopt its preferred foreign policy without depending heavily on other foreign states.

In the European context, strategic autonomy is the ability of the European Union (EU) to not be overly reliant on the United States, defend Europe, and act militarily for the strategic purposes of affording a political autonomy independent from US foreign policies. The concept has become prominent amid the 2020s European rearmament forced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and US threats to invade Greenland.