Summary

U.S. officials have warned European allies against excluding American defense firms from EU weapons tenders, amid new EU proposals to boost domestic arms production.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized U.S. concerns in recent meetings, citing potential negative repercussions if U.S. companies are sidelined.

The EU’s €150 billion ReArm Europe plan aims to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers as Trump signals reduced U.S. NATO engagement.

Washington sees the move as conflicting with its goal of selling arms abroad. Tensions highlight diverging transatlantic defense priorities under Trump’s leadership.

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    9 个月前

    LOL.

    Until U.S. foreign policy is no longer dictated by the Kremlin, the U.S. can get fucked.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        it’s so weird being like “hey foreign invaders. i’ll help y’all out. i’m down for bing a canadian province. or maybe the netherlands, france, or spain can reclaim their claims? i’m also down to arm native americans. i’m very flexible. i’m just not okay with this

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      Why would it change after that? They’ve clearly demonstrated they intend to just stab their allies in the back the second a bit of cash gets wiggled in front of their snouts.

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      “Warned against excluding”

      Wait until the US feels threatened by the EU and will need to invade to guarantee security for its citizens.

      Literally just russia 2.0

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    Uh, what the fuck did these geniuses think would happen? Repeatedly kick every one of our allies in the balls, and…then what? Things continue just status quo in every other aspect?

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      Probably one of the top 10 Trump moments so far from the Oval Office “ we are going to make less capable aircraft for our allies. In case they aren’t our allies anymore in the future you never know.”

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      To be fair. That’s what’s basically been happening over the past 50 years. Just look at how we let Russia walk all over us. So it kinda makes sense for them to expect the same outcome.

      Their only problem is that since Europe is basically on its own now, Europe has to choose for european produce. We can deal with one shitty dictatorship trying to push us around. But now its two shitty dictatorships so yeah that kinda changes things around (finally).

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    “Warned”? What are you going to do, invade Europe for not buying our weapons? These chucklefucks legit think they own the world.

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      9 个月前

      This is the same US government that’s currently complaining it’s too difficult to do business in Quebec (a province of a country the US is threatening to invade) because native French speakers insist on speaking French. The US is demanding they use English.

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    “We don’t need other countries!”

    “Hey, you other countries can’t do that, we need you!”

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    Dear Mr. Rubio

    Please gently fornicate yourself.

    I don’t want a singe euro-cent of my taxes spent in the American industry.

    You reap what you sow.

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    Huh, it’s almost like EU powers have seen the problem with having an unpredictable outsider control thier means of defense.

    Imagine trying to preflight your fancy F35 and seeing the Tesla, “please wait for update” screen.

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      That’ll probably be on the plane he named after himself, the F-47. Assuming Boeing doesn’t just take the taxpayer money for four years and then drop it as soon as the next president gets elected.

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        You already know that’s the plan for Boeing. Baby baby one more chance to build and scrap a worthless prototype that cost billions

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          Best part is, they get away with it because they were just doing as they were told, even though the order is probably more than a little unrealistic. I’m not gonna pretend I know about classified military research, but the F-35 is supposedly top of the line. Do they even have the tech to make a more advanced fighter right now? Probably not, which means they’ll say they have to spend more developing it all.

          What Trump doesn’t get, is even if the next president is a republican, they probably aren’t gonna be interested in spending billions on expanding Trump’s legacy, when they can cancel it and make themselves look like a responsible budget manager.

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            Ya lol imagine the f-35 program. In danger of turning a profit. Naaah not any more. Fuck it to death with words!!!

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    Did they not just ask Europeans to up our defense spending? Getting a lot of mixed messages here… Fools.

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      They meant they wanted Europe to buy a bunch of overpriced American fighter jets

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    Hey USA you know how the saying goes: “Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.”

    Now Europe is arming itself like you asked. So kindly fuck off and be happy, that you got what you asked for.

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    Sounds to me like the US government has been thoroughly infiltrated by corporations only interested in their own profit. How dare other countries not pay billions to American corporations??

    But we knew this already.