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NATO members aren't particularly large customers for American weapons. Poland is the largest, but is dwarfed by Japan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Ukraine is rece
by mikkupikku 10mo ago
NATO members aren't particularly large customers for American weapons. Poland is the largest, but is dwarfed by Japan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Ukraine is receiving a bunch of weapons, but that math isn't so straight forward (they're getting a ton of old stock) and they don't have much choice anyway.
- epolanski 10mo agoEuropeans have spent 80B $ in 2024 and 68 in 2025 on US weapons. That's not peanuts.
- _DeadFred_ 10mo agoTotal US goods exports were $2,083 in 2025. This number is 4% of all of our exported goods for the year, so actually a pretty big number when it comes to national economics. People keep talking like the US can throw away 4% here, 2% there, likes it's nothing. The same people said last week 'Trump is meme'ing about Greenland'. Now they are saying 'the hit to our economy won't be too bad' which is as truthful of a statement as 'meme'ing about Greenland' was and based on the same 'defend Trump' and not reality.
- mikkupikku 10mo ago[flagged]
- youngtaff 10mo agoApart from Patriot, Atacms and a few other modern systems, Ukraine is basically saving the US the cost of destroying old arms