5) Trump is trying to get allies to buy shitty expensive kit from the USA. This is the only point I'm not sure I agree with. The US lost a major chunk of our

5) Trump is trying to get allies to buy shitty expensive kit from the USA. This is the only point I'm not sure I agree with. The US lost a major chunk of our Telecoms hardware capability when Lucent imploded in 2006 and took Bell Labs and all its engineers with it. Alcatel bought it, then Nokia bought it. So there's not much telecoms gear the US can provide to the EU/UK, that EU companies can't. Not much reason for the EU/UK to go with US suppliers here.