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.

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    21 hours ago

    The US just needs to pull itself up by the bootstraps and keep applying to more countries to land a contract.

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      20 hours ago

      Yep, America doesn’t like ‘hand outs’ anyway. So they’re honestly doing them a favor.