Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Wednesday slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers, according to three NATO diplomats.
The intervention came during Wednesday’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers — which was skipped by Landau’s boss Marco Rubio.
Landau, a longtime NATO skeptic who spoke first at the closed-door meeting, told ministers not to “bully” his country’s defense firms out of participating in Europe’s rearmament.
Maybe that’s because we pissed everybody off.
The US just needs to pull itself up by the bootstraps and keep applying to more countries to land a contract.
Yep, America doesn’t like ‘hand outs’ anyway. So they’re honestly doing them a favor.
Why didn’t Europe protect me from the consequences of my own actions?
Just wait until the post-tariff trade deals start hitting in a year or two.
America doesn’t have any idea yet the scope of disaster that Donald has created, and the worst part is that he and the other billionaires are insulated from it.
Insulated? Profiting off every move more like.
It’s like they’re not trusting the US for the defence of their sovereignty. That’s weird. I wonder why.
Womp womp.
The EU is buying a ton of American weapons though?
slammed
I was about to praise the use of the word berates but then I read on…
When is US going to start buying Eurofighter or Leopard 2 then?
The orange man likely shouldn’t have been broadcasting out that he’d sell sub-standard equipment to allies, because “maybe they won’t be our allies for long” then.
I know, if America wants to convince the rest of the western world that its arms are top notch, they should provide gear to Ukraine and allow Ukraine to use it without restriction – seeing those arms actually defeat the Russian arms, would be a convincing case that US arms are high quality. Cause right now, that conflict isn’t exactly a winning endorsement of being a US Ally, or buying US kit.
Instead, all we see is the states vulture-circling its client while handicapping their ability to defend themselves with seemingly sub standard weaponry. We see countries like India shifting to Russian arms deals, likely in part because of this sort of thing. Why buy American, if American arms are not allowed to be used against an aggressor nation? Why buy American, if owning those weapons means that Russia can still steamroll you due to America siding with Russia and salivating over your resources?
The whole point of Europe handing our defense companies to the rear view mirror is to get away from relying on us. I as a american hope they do. The more they do the smaller US defense companies become and that is a good thing for america and its citizens.
Good. Give nothing to the us of fascistland. Even Canada is going to switch to Europe for planes etc.
Biggest global rearming since WW1 and people are cheering about it like they don’t understand what happens next.
Most people aren’t cheering that we are rearming, but they understand that it is a necessary evil.
Russia is right at our doorsteps and is increasingly aggressive. So we either rearm in the hope that that threat keeps Russia at bay, or we don’t and will hopelessly lose if Russia invades.
Personally I prefer the first option.
Most people aren’t cheering that we are rearming, but they understand that it is a necessary evil.
Plenty of people are chomping at the bit for a Glorious New War we can all watch on the TV.
Russia is right at our doorsteps
That hasn’t been true in over 40 years. And even when it was true, Europeans suffered far more under the paranoid police states of their own governments than any cross border conflict.
Personally I prefer the first option.
Not like any of us have a material say, but enjoy conscription I guess.
