News Arms Race

[Anonymous]

And here is the start of the new arms race, as I and many others predicted. Nuclear proliferation is about to change.

https://www.newsweek.com/europes-plan-ditch-us-weapons-spooks-pentagon-report-2054087

[Anonymous]

MASA

Make America Safe Again
Or, at least, let’s have democratic allies.

[Anonymous]

Wait a minute…. We rake Europe over the coals and basically imply with our actions that we won’t help them if they are invaded BUT we want Europe to continue buying our weapons???

Is there a loser written on European leaders head?? They are going to increase their defense spending and they are going to do it by excluding us because they can’t trust us, so why should they trust us with their weapons??

[Anonymous]

Europe will re-arm without US equipment and weapon systems. Their needs will be different vs what the US wants to produce. Also the US does not have the capacity. Right now it is a 2-3 year wait for ATACMS and they are dependent on US software updates/satellite guidance. The F-35 is done. It’s 100 million now without Europe it will go north of 300 million per.

Europe plus South Korea and Japan will be able get their defense industries scaled up in 2-3 years. It will take 3-5 years to build up their military. Looks like Europe will be spending around 900 billion per year by themselves while the US will be under 450 million. Europe will buy the US systems until they can make their own. Airbus will love the business.


Though first Poland, Romania, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Ukraine will go nuclear. Sweden and Finland could do it(a deliverable nuclear weapon system) in weeks. Poland and Romania 6-9 months. Germany just needs the fuel and Ukraine has all the former Soviet aerospace and nuclear engineers plus a fuel supply. Bet they work together.

One thing the article does not talk about is Asia. Look for Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia to join the Europeans and not buy American. Let’s not forget Canada.

[Anonymous]

450 billion ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute…. We rake Europe over the coals and basically imply with our actions that we won’t help them if they are invaded BUT we want Europe to continue buying our weapons???

Is there a loser written on European leaders head?? They are going to increase their defense spending and they are going to do it by excluding us because they can’t trust us, so why should they trust us with their weapons??

Europe and Canada have already cancelled contracts with US suppliers and are moving to European suppliers.

Thanks Donald.

[Anonymous]

The US has been very much a cornerstone of W world for decades. It's been good because we've established our leadership, helped us econ, def good to have allies of course. We are the decision makers so that not a bad position.

Its not been so good in that we've had to put out most in most situations whether by way of financial or military support. It's always us who has to get involved and it is also not the most ideal spot to be in when there's conflicts. We are the stop gap and we own the pressures of being a leader.

That's all gone. The good and the bad, it's now just us.

Will it be all good or all bad moving forward? I'm sure will be a mix of both as it's never just one or the other. Militarily and economically, I think it will take history to show the results. Nobody knows the future.

I think the only for sure thing is we've never been here before and we are starting a new chapter of foreign policy. I think it's only observation at this point - we're no longer part of the players aligning for a position in the world order as Trump has taken us out. What we are doing moving forward is relying only on ourselves. It's not a good thing in my mind not to have many friends and words for having made enemies of our friends. That's 100%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good luck fighting off Russians with your Finnish missiles and Dutch airplanes

Russia failed in its invasion of the Ukraine. The Ukrainians at the start were using old Soviet arms. The Trump and the Republicans have abandoned the Europeans, Japan, South Korea and Australia. Have fun paying 300 million per for the F-35 and 450 million for the f-47 build by Boeing(lol)! ItS not like the Germans can’t build better and less expensive weapons vs the US.

Exactly. I mean ever heard of German engineering???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being the worlds policeman costs a lot of money. As does taking care of 12 million illegals, among other things. We cant do everything, we barely take care of our own. Other countries need to step up, its no longer a free ride on our backs

We weren't the police for free, we got massive weapons contracts that contributed to the economy by generating thousands of jobs and consumer spending and as favor to us we got to make USD the reserve currency, NOTHING in this world happens for free. I don't understands where MAGA got this idea from that U.S was doing the spending out of the goodness of it's heart, really??? How dumb do you have to be to come to that conclusion?

So, now the workers in Lockheed Martin and Boeing factories can no longer look forward to a steady paycheck because the contracts won't be there, I am pretty sure that majority of them are MAGA. Truly the case of FAFO.

Not anymore. Now Donnie's mad that countries will spend that money elsewhere.