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This bullshit can look reasonable, but the US has undercut the European Defense initiatives and industry at every turn during the last 30 years, using their geo
by aredox 2y ago
This bullshit can look reasonable, but the US has undercut the European Defense initiatives and industry at every turn during the last 30 years, using their geopolitical reach and tools like Echelon for industrial spying to win military procurement programs, and their special relationship with the UK to veto any EU-wide initiative towards defense.
The US goals have been for decades to force the EU to buy US military hardware and to make sure the EU can't become an independent military power. They kept Europe on a leash, kept it tame, and now they complain that "we depend on us".
Make no mistake, the second the EU becomes militarily independant and strong, they will complain as loudly. Look first for Trump applying pressure because we don't buy American weapons, and then him or his cult casting the EU into their geopolitical adversary.
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoBut the Trump administration is ... charitably ... being isolationist and is poised to fire a massive number of generals from the existing military leadership. They have also massively purged the CIA and NSA, while installing moronic stooges at the head of all of those agencies. Uncharitably ... he is doing Putin's bidding for whatever unknown reason Putin has such absolute influence over Trump, because Putin thinks it will allow him to invade eastern NATO and retake the Sulwalki gap and possibly the former warsaw pact, which is basically a pipe dream of a madman. Russia does not have the military hardware to beat Ukraine, and it doesn't have the manpower: Russian meat waves can barely be sustained in Ukraine, and certainly wouldn't against the EU NATO forces as they exist now.