Gli Stati Uniti stanno tranquillamente mettendo in pausa alcune vendite di armi in Europa

A few excerpts:

“The first clue that something had changed in the U.S. approach to selling military equipment to Europe came as Denmark neared a decision on the purchase of a multibillion-dollar air-defense system. For weeks, American and French negotiators had aggressively pursued the deal. But as the deadline approached, the Pentagon suddenly lost interest.

“We couldn’t understand why,” a contractor who had been tracking the discussions told me. “It seemed like a no-brainer, but they just weren’t into it.”

Then, on a call earlier this month with the State Department, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby said that he didn’t believe in the value of certainforeign military sales, according to two administration officials with knowledge of the discussion. He added that he didn’t like the idea of selling Patriots—which can intercept incoming missiles—to Denmark, because they are in short supply and should be reserved for the United States to use as needed. (The officials, like others I talked with, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss this sensitive and evolving situation.)

The comments surprised some State officials, but they soon learned that it wasn’t just Denmark having its access cut off. Current and former administration officials told me the Pentagon has identified some weapons as being in short supply, and is moving to block new requests for those systems coming in from Europe. It wasn’t immediately clear to those I spoke with how long the hold will last, how many weapons are on the list, or if it could expand to include even more weapons. Few exemptions will be granted.

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Officials and observers of the Trump administration say the change is on brand with Colby’s belief that China is the only country that has the ambition, resources, and military might to knock the U.S. off its pedestal as the world’s leading superpower. The only way to stop its bid for global dominance, Colby has argued, is for the U.S. to pour everything it can into securing the Western Pacific—albeit, potentially, at the expense of European security”

*Note that the other bit of news this week is that US has halted some weapons sales to Taiwan. “Reorient to China, huh?”*

The sooner our leaders stop pretending the US can be an ally the better. They will, and presumably are, working to sabotage and destabilise european nations just as much as Russia is.

Europe should never have allowed itself to become so dependent on the US. Who decided that was a good idea?

“Officials and observers of the Trump administration say the change is on brand with Colby’s belief that China is the only country that has the ambition, resources, and military might to knock the U.S. off its pedestal as the world’s leading superpower. The only way to stop its bid for global dominance, Colby has argued, is for the U.S. to pour everything it can into securing the Western Pacific—albeit, potentially, at the expense of European security”

Trump in his 1st term withdrew from Obama’s TPPA (designed to contain China) initiative, and in his 2nd term antagonized pretty much every ally in East Asia including everyone in the 1st island chain. The latest was the ICE mass arrest shitshow over at South Korean factory in the US.

I dunno what they are doing but they sure ain countering China.

Less competition sure sounds good, they should rethink more of those weapons, the second weapon seller does not mind money that is for sure.

US will arm Europe enough to defend and sustain the war but not enough to win the war .

They didn’t want to sell to Denmark, and Denmark owns Greenland, and the US wants Greenland. Not a very difficult puzzle.

Tbh that’s not wholly unreasonable; they really do have lower stocks than they’re going to need if they get into a war and I sure as shit wouldn’t sell them any weapons we were short of right now.

>But the Patriot doesn’t really have a European equivalent

YET

Like with all these decisions, there will be the unintended consequence of Europeans not only looking for alternatives, but actually developing them themselves.

The European military-industrial complex is booming and air defence is at the very top of the agenda. Billions are flowing into R&D, startups have put some extra pressure on the established companies to innovate.

Necessity begets ingenuity.

And make no mistake, once that huge export market is lost (US defence companies made tens of billions even in peaceful times every year by selling kit to Europe), it will be gone for good.

Peace in Europe then?

Why did the Europeans stop innovating, oh yes most people elected in the EU parliament are totally useless parasites.

lol I swear people never read articles again lol, I can convince this whole sub that Russia has invaded Britain based on the headline i put and people will believe it… imagine reading a headline and the first thing you do is form an opinion on the article you never read….