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.
…as a US citizen, i am ashamed.
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
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.
thoughts and prayers
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Wednesday slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers
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.
Womp womp.
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…
Maybe that’s because we pissed everybody off.
Now who could’ve seen that one coming.
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.
Dear USA,
Womp womp.
Sincerely,
Everywhere Else.
Tarriftopia complaining about “protectionist and exclusionary policies that bully American companies out of the market” is amazing.
It’s like they’re not trusting the US for the defence of their sovereignty. That’s weird. I wonder why.
Why didn’t Europe protect me from the consequences of my own actions?
European here. Good. Our elected officials are not yet so stupid as to think that stupid man has any actual sense.
Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.
Ok, we can make it all arms programs.
Let’s.
America isn’t a peer anymore.
