The Missile Made in Germany, Owned by Washington | NATO’s €50BN Ankara Summit

Europe will finally build its own ATACMS missiles — on German soil. The catch? Washington still holds the export sign-off. That’s the autonomy paradox at the heart of NATO’s 2026 Ankara summit.

In this episode of The Veritas Brief, we follow the money through more than €50 billion in new arms deals. We unpack the Lockheed Martin–Rheinmetall missile pact, Europe’s rearmament boom, and the dependence on Washington that all the spending still can’t buy its way out of.