BRUSSELS — United States arms-makers are being frozen out of the European Union’s massive new defense spending plan, which aims to splash the cash for EU and allied countries, according to defense spending plans released Wednesday.

Also left out — for now — is the United Kingdom.

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    The only hope for the US not becoming a repeat of 1920s Germany

    Its seeming like they are trying to speed run it. What I think they may have failed to understand was that global integration with the US was a relationship of consent and respect.

    I forget who said it recently… something like “You dont have the cards”… their name escapes me. Global chip manufacturing, RAM, automobile components, silicon wafers, lithium, lumber, and on and on and on…

    Its far easier for the world to get along without the US than it is for the US to get along without the rest of the world.

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      You dont have the cards

      that was vice president and vice puppet JD Vance

      global integration with the US was a relationship of consent and respect.

      i think the trumpists understand perfectly and that’s why they’re working to destroy it.

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        i think the trumpists understand perfectly and that’s why they’re working to destroy it

        I honestly think there is a good portion of the fan base who fully drink the koolaid and think other countries are not viable without them. And have forgotten or not understood America is the world police by their own choice

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      The same was true for Nazi Germany. They didn’t have the oil to run a war or many of the other resources, and they only had such amazing military success because every other nations was slow in rearming after the peace of the previous war. That and appeasement.