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USA had no part in that push?
by LtWorf 6mo ago
USA had no part in that push?
- bluGill 6mo agoPerhaps but the US was pushing NATO to invest more in war for years suggesting they didn't believe war was in the past
- LtWorf 6mo agoThat's because they have more to gain from that.
- don_esteban 6mo agoCorrection: The US was pushing NATO to invest more in US gear.
- bluGill 6mo agoThat was the hope but nothing stopped the EU from making their own stuff.
- don_esteban 6mo agoNothing, only the gentle hand of US influence over their internal affairs, and the typical nationalistic bickering among themselves.
- bluGill 6mo agoThose are impediments for sure, but they are not blockers, and if they had the will, they would have overcome that. Most, probably all NATO countries do have their own military industrial complex of some sort and the US is buying from them. Although, it certainly is the case that the US is the largest supplier of military equipment and so, yes, the US would benefit most from efforts to increase military spending.
- don_esteban 6mo agoI agree, the will was never there. We will see whether the new realities of the war in Ukraine and Trump's approach to Europe will substantially change that. The whole economic and societal tensions in the west make things tougher...
- mitjam 6mo agoThis is not true, since the 1990 the us was strongly opposed on the eu building or relying more on own defense industry and more closely aligned defence policy, even threatening end of NATO. Lookup the "three Ds" articulated later by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: No Duplication of NATO assets, No Decoupling of European security from the US, and No Discrimination against NATO members who were not in the EU.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 6mo agoNATO expansion was pretty controversial in the US https://time.com/archive/6731121/how-clinton-decided-on-nato-expansion/ https://time.com/archive/6731121/how-clinton-decided-on-nato...
- LtWorf 6mo agoClinton was the president of the USA, I think you're proving I was correct. I never stated each and every USA citizen was pushing for it.