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.
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.
Womp womp.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Wednesday slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers
BITCH YOU LITERALLY TOLD US THAT IS WHAT YOU WANTED.
Get fucked. I don’t consider the US allies anyway, we don’t ally with fascists.
Edit: i have been informed that I am to ease on the hyperbole, so correction: read the former through a lens of less hyperbole, violence is bad
I think you’ll find that what they wanted was Europe to increase their defences spending by buying US made weapons not make their own.
“No, not like that!”
They want us to fend for ourselves by buying their stuff.
They are idots but it is the reasonable position from their point of view. What is completely unreasonable is the move away from Europe and toward authoitarianism.
That’s the empire. Economic victory condition a few turns away. Important turns.
Dear USA,
Womp womp.
Sincerely,
Everywhere Else.
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.
Maybe that’s because we pissed everybody off.
European here. Good. Our elected officials are not yet so stupid as to think that stupid man has any actual sense.
Why didn’t Europe protect me from the consequences of my own actions?
It’s like they’re not trusting the US for the defence of their sovereignty. That’s weird. I wonder why.
Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.
Ok, we can make it all arms programs.
Let’s.
America isn’t a peer anymore.
The EU is buying a ton of American weapons though?
Hasn’t the regime been tell them to do more for their own defenses? Why are they getting mad at them for doing what was asked?
Because they’re a bunch of oligarch fascist psychopaths and they aren’t satisfied with dominating their own hemisphere anymore, they got control over their own, now they are going to do the same to Europe.
Between Russia and the USA, I’d say we need to up our defense budgets across the board and talk about much closer collaboration between our nations, to become a force of our own. It’s ridiculous this shit.
When is US going to start buying Eurofighter or Leopard 2 then?
slammed
I was about to praise the use of the word berates but then I read on…
