I guess they will use Ericsson and Nokia equipment instead.

It's an east vs west thing.

At the current rate the US will become an "even further east".

What does this even mean?

What it means is that in the future Europe will have to consider a Trumpist USA to be like a 21st Century version of a totalitarian Eastern Bloc or Soviet country: Orbanism, absurd projectionism, dangerous allies, the state demanding a share of businesses and directing sales and mergers, openly describing the EU (and now the UK) as not friends or even as enemies, trumped up prosecutions of political enemies, assuming that foreign surveillance is built into its products, etc.

Some of these things are already here.

*protectionism

More like west vs rest of the world. Its cold war round 2 but this time its the west that is starting to hide behind a iron/cyber wall.

lmao China is already in a cyber wall. What's wrong with building defenses if your opponent already has? What have they built the defenses for?

That is called being on the other side of an airtight hatch (h/t Raymond Chen)

The US has troops, tanks, aircraft, even nuclear weapons stationed in German.

Sovereignty vis-a-vis the United States is not something on the table.

More expensive US Cisco equipment, at least Trump will be happy for it.

The article states that they're pushing for independence from American tech as well