WASHINGTON/PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) - U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers’ participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The messages delivered by Washington in recent weeks come as the EU takes steps to boost Europe’s weapons industry, while potentially limiting purchases of certain types of U.S. arms.
In a March 25 meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that the United States wants to continue participating in EU countries’ defense procurements, the sources told Reuters.
Fuck the U.S. Buy locally.
America: “Fuck everyone else, we’re going to create a totally isolated economy and refuse to buy anything from our allies. Fuck international trade, we don’t need you losers anyway”
Europe: “OK, we won’t trade with you then.”
America: “Wait, no, come back!”
Ah the old “we’re locking you out, but how dare you lock us out” approach
I’m a United States citizen and I would rather our economy and people suffer than for the world to buy into the garbage POTUS and his MAGAt cronies are pushing. This nation deserves all the ill will and hurt it has coming to it.
Muhaha
FAFO
They thought we were gonna be the next Russia but we’re shaping up to be Hungary – a corrupt but largely ineffective country that’s known for nothing but being corrupt in ineffective.
Here’s hoping Europe holds strong and lets the U.S. fuck off and die in its confusion.
The humiliation of the USA over this administration’s recklessness and shortsightedness continues.
FAFO, indeed.
That sounds like a good reason to not buy American weapons
America pulled itself out of the great depression by becoming the worlds largest weapons manufacturer and staying out of WW2 until the very end.
They feel that they have been doing their allies a favor by having military bases in key locations that have allowed these nations to spend less than 2% of their GDP on defense.
This administration would like to reset the world order so that these countries pay for their own defense. Isolationists like JD Vance strongly believe in this.
They also know that allies will likely buy weapons from them which will help balance trade imbalances.
Here’s the problem - there is no situation where this does not lead to nuclear proliferation. It’s essentially inevitable if America continues down this path.
Also, when nations invest more in their militaries, they are more likely to use them, with or without adequate justification. The US is a prime example of this.
Perhaps the post WW2 period of relative peace and prosperity is about to come to an end, along with the concept of the Western world - leaving a power vacuum that I’m sure China and Russia are eager to capitalize on.
US Officials can suck rocks.
The EU: “That sounds like a ‘you’ problem.”
Get fucked, Rubio.
You are pathetic! Buy my stuff pleeeease.
Lololol
