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EU slams the door on US in defense plan
- ggm 2y agoI would think that before long, the UK will be re-admitted as well as the German aim of permitting near-neighbour economies (schengen zone? nordic countries?) into the room. France doesn't want that right now, but if you think about it, the materiel industry is pretty trans-national and the UK has a lot of it in Ferranti, Marconi, GEC, BAE. Everyone does JV back to before Brexit, they didn't just fly apart because Nigel Farage got a win.
- spacedcowboy 2y agoThe blocking function at the moment is apparently that they still want some fishing rights and free movement for their younger people (up to 30) for this 150B. The larger 1T budget doesn't seem to have those restrictions, so perhaps the UK will be allowed to play in that group. For the time being, given that a lot of European arms are at least partly UK-designed, it's going to be a bit murky. I presume that's where the 65% thing comes in.
- watwut 2y agoIt sux, but the idea that Americans would NOT actively sabotage on whim is a sci fi now. It is basically certain America will try to harm Europe when it can. There is no meaningful internal opposition to hard conservative side which is intent on destroying democracy itself too, so there is not much hope it will change in next 10-15 years.