Olio CafeTop US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup
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*Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.*
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Wednesday slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers, according to three NATO diplomats.
The intervention came during Wednesday’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers — which was skipped by Landau’s boss Marco Rubio.
Landau, a longtime NATO skeptic who spoke first at the closed-door meeting, told ministers not to “bully” his country’s defense firms out of participating in Europe’s rearmament.
Maybe that’s because we pissed everybody off.
all part of putins plan, is to isolate the US.
Divide et impera. He does that all over Europe, too, and has been doing it for decades. The USA is the main enemy though, and he already conquered that, Europe was always the prize.
The US just needs to pull itself up by the bootstraps and keep applying to more countries to land a contract.
They literally cannot even imagine the idea that their own actions have consequences. Watching these brainless fucks mesmerize so many people around me is absolutely terrifying.
And whether you intended that strictly as sarcasm or not - you’re not wrong… We really do need to just sort our shit out as a country already. But there’s still some stubborn idiots like me that refuse to give up. Will it be enough to even give us a chance? I dunno
Yep, America doesn’t like ‘hand outs’ anyway. So they’re honestly doing them a favor.
But you see, we don’t have to earn it - y’all do! Or something. Fuck if I know…
Why didn’t Europe protect me from the consequences of my own actions?
It’s like they’re not trusting the US for the defence of their sovereignty. That’s weird. I wonder why.
Tarriftopia complaining about “protectionist and exclusionary policies that bully American companies out of the market” is amazing.
Just wait until the post-tariff trade deals start hitting in a year or two.
America doesn’t have any idea yet the scope of disaster that Donald has created, and the worst part is that he and the other billionaires are insulated from it.
Insulated? Profiting off every move more like.
Dear USA,
Womp womp.
Sincerely,
Everywhere Else.
America isn’t a peer anymore.
European here. Good. Our elected officials are not yet so stupid as to think that stupid man has any actual sense.
Ok, we can make it all arms programs.
Let’s.
BITCH YOU LITERALLY TOLD US THAT IS WHAT YOU WANTED.
Get fucked. I don’t consider the US allies anyway, we don’t ally with fascists.
Edit: i have been informed that I am to ease on the hyperbole, so correction: read the former through a lens of less hyperbole, violence is bad
I think you’ll find that what they wanted was Europe to increase their defences spending by buying US made weapons not make their own.
“No, not like that!”
They want us to fend for ourselves by buying their stuff.
They are idots but it is the reasonable position from their point of view. What is completely unreasonable is the move away from Europe and toward authoitarianism.
That’s the empire. Economic victory condition a few turns away. Important turns.
“A few turns away” until suddenly the meme of the kid riding a bike shoving a stick in his own spokes.
Well I guess this game is going to be keeping me up all night after all.
Just… One… More… Turn…
Womp womp.
Hasn’t the regime been tell them to do more for their own defenses? Why are they getting mad at them for doing what was asked?
Because they’re a bunch of oligarch fascist psychopaths and they aren’t satisfied with dominating their own hemisphere anymore, they got control over their own, now they are going to do the same to Europe.
Between Russia and the USA, I’d say we need to up our defense budgets across the board and talk about much closer collaboration between our nations, to become a force of our own. It’s ridiculous this shit.
thoughts and prayers
Looks like a smug fuck.
The EU is buying a ton of American weapons though?
When is US going to start buying Eurofighter or Leopard 2 then?
…as a US citizen, i am ashamed.
slammed
I was about to praise the use of the word berates but then I read on..
The orange man likely shouldn’t have been broadcasting out that he’d sell sub-standard equipment to allies, because “maybe they won’t be our allies for long” then.
I know, if America wants to convince the rest of the western world that its arms are top notch, they should provide gear to Ukraine and allow Ukraine to use it without restriction – seeing those arms actually defeat the Russian arms, would be a convincing case that US arms are high quality. Cause right now, that conflict isn’t exactly a winning endorsement of being a US Ally, or buying US kit.
Instead, all we see is the states vulture-circling its client while handicapping their ability to defend themselves with seemingly sub standard weaponry. We see countries like India shifting to Russian arms deals, likely in part because of this sort of thing. Why buy American, if American arms are not allowed to be used against an aggressor nation? Why buy American, if owning those weapons means that Russia can still steamroll you due to America siding with Russia and salivating over your resources?
European bureucrats like von der Leyen are spineless American lapdogs. They will apologise and kiss Trump’s feet. They always have.
respond by expelling thier embassies.
Oh, new intelligence has just emerged that your country’s government is supporting a terrorist organization that sending drugs to the US!
/s