Europeans strangely want to buy European weapons as long as they are going to spend more money on national defense.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has threatened to retaliate against European countries if the EU favors domestic weapons-makers in a drive to rearm the continent.
The U.S. Department of Defense objected to any EU effort to limit American arms-manufacturers' access to the European market and warned that would trigger a reciprocal response.
When we insist our European allies do more to defend themselves, they might just do more to defend themselves. Expecting them to simply buy more American weapons was assuming too much. I mean, nice work if you can get it, of course. But our European allies see things differently. As I've mentioned in other contexts.
The old strategy of doing more than allies made perfect sense when a war begun by an ally might escalate into strategic nuclear war between America and the Soviet Union, eh? We assume that problem no longer exists. Fingers crossed.
NOTE: TDR Winter War of 2022 coverage continues here.
NOTE: You may also like to read my posts on Substack, at The Dignified Rant: Evolved. Go ahead and subscribe to it. It's the right thing to do!
NOTE: I made the image with Bing.
