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America has a weird stance on this. They have consistently opposed European efforts to develop independent military tech - see what they did to British nuclear
by verzali 2y ago
America has a weird stance on this. They have consistently opposed European efforts to develop independent military tech - see what they did to British nuclear and missile programs, and how they have fought against the French desire to maintain their own defense programs. Now they seem to want to abandon Europe and blame them for not having their own military hardware.
- munksbeer 2y ago> Now they seem to want to abandon Europe We should be clear here, who "they" are. Trump is Trump, he is a populist, so he'll just do whatever. The question is, is the support for his type of populism embedded in the US now, or not. I don't think it is, I think the US will see through his type of populism at some point. So I don't think the US will be abandoning Europe in the medium or longer term, and mostly only making noises about it in the short term. I think it is worthwhile for Europe to mitigate the short term, strengthen its military, but we should be aiming to keep the medium term alliance with the US going.
- rnd0 2y agoThey is NOT Trump; THEY is Musk and he has economic ties to China and Russia. Musk the lens that all future U.S. actions and rhetoric needs to be seen through, at least in the near-term.