Summary

U.S. officials have warned European allies against excluding American defense firms from EU weapons tenders, amid new EU proposals to boost domestic arms production.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized U.S. concerns in recent meetings, citing potential negative repercussions if U.S. companies are sidelined.

The EU’s €150 billion ReArm Europe plan aims to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers as Trump signals reduced U.S. NATO engagement.

Washington sees the move as conflicting with its goal of selling arms abroad. Tensions highlight diverging transatlantic defense priorities under Trump’s leadership.

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    13 days ago

    LOL.

    Until U.S. foreign policy is no longer dictated by the Kremlin, the U.S. can get fucked.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        it’s so weird being like “hey foreign invaders. i’ll help y’all out. i’m down for bing a canadian province. or maybe the netherlands, france, or spain can reclaim their claims? i’m also down to arm native americans. i’m very flexible. i’m just not okay with this

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      Why would it change after that? They’ve clearly demonstrated they intend to just stab their allies in the back the second a bit of cash gets wiggled in front of their snouts.

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      “Warned against excluding”

      Wait until the US feels threatened by the EU and will need to invade to guarantee security for its citizens.

      Literally just russia 2.0

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    Uh, what the fuck did these geniuses think would happen? Repeatedly kick every one of our allies in the balls, and…then what? Things continue just status quo in every other aspect?

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      Probably one of the top 10 Trump moments so far from the Oval Office “ we are going to make less capable aircraft for our allies. In case they aren’t our allies anymore in the future you never know.”

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      To be fair. That’s what’s basically been happening over the past 50 years. Just look at how we let Russia walk all over us. So it kinda makes sense for them to expect the same outcome.

      Their only problem is that since Europe is basically on its own now, Europe has to choose for european produce. We can deal with one shitty dictatorship trying to push us around. But now its two shitty dictatorships so yeah that kinda changes things around (finally).

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    It’s a national security threat for the EU to buy American arms. All it takes is for a crazy US president to cut their supply when they’re most in need like the US did to Ukraine and they’re in trouble. The EU is right to exclude US arms. Trumps actions have consequences.

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    “We don’t need other countries!”

    “Hey, you other countries can’t do that, we need you!”

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    Dear Mr. Rubio

    Please gently fornicate yourself.

    I don’t want a singe euro-cent of my taxes spent in the American industry.

    You reap what you sow.

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    Huh, it’s almost like EU powers have seen the problem with having an unpredictable outsider control thier means of defense.

    Imagine trying to preflight your fancy F35 and seeing the Tesla, “please wait for update” screen.

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    Did they not just ask Europeans to up our defense spending? Getting a lot of mixed messages here… Fools.

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      They meant they wanted Europe to buy a bunch of overpriced American fighter jets

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    Hey USA you know how the saying goes: “Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.”

    Now Europe is arming itself like you asked. So kindly fuck off and be happy, that you got what you asked for.

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    boo. fuckin. hoo.

    you did it to yourselves. now. could you please stop deporting my neighbors? between the Ukrainians who got deported from my town and the rich white conservatives, i woulda rather deported the rich white conservatives

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    Sounds to me like the US government has been thoroughly infiltrated by corporations only interested in their own profit. How dare other countries not pay billions to American corporations??

    But we knew this already.