• fox2263@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Pwease buy our stuff.

    Maybe the MIC should have thought about this before Trump ruined literally everything. They had a good thing going, selling to literally every country on earth barring a few.

  • Europellinore@europe.pub
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    17 hours ago

    USA’s demand that Europe has to take care of its own defence, was never about Europe having to take care of its own defence.

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      16 hours ago

      Oh, absolutely. That 5% spending for NATO was intended to all go into US weapon industry.

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        5 hours ago

        Is the goal to increase independence for Europe or suffering of US companies? Wouldn’t the success of European defense companies be a better metric here?

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    18 hours ago

    They are starting to see how heavily the EU have subsidized their arms industry, lol.