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.
“Here’s a tariff! Fuck you!”
We don’t trust you anymore. We won’t buy from you
“Noooo, but you must!”
Fuck 'em.
Sounds like the Defense Industry doesn’t want anybody upsetting the apple cart.
I wonder if these powerful businesses could come up with a solution? 🤔
According to two of the sources, Rubio said any exclusion of U.S. companies from European tenders would be seen negatively by Washington,
Ah ah ah ! “Would be seen negatively”… Ah ah ah !
I dunno I heard some American with a spray tan say that they didn’t need Europe or Canada…
Well … We want you to put the orange turd in jail and quit being dicks to everybody. You can’t always get what you want, can you?
“No, we don’t like that. We insist that you do not.”
“Art of ze deal, non?”
There is nobody more entitled on this planet than the Orange man and his followers.
Yea, we know that american interests wants that. European (allies?) are, understandably, not comfortable with that though.
They say this after taunting Germany last month on a visit in Munich where they basically said you‘d have to have military power to be sovereign.
Let’s ditch the American weapons.
Maybe they should object to the reasons that made us buying European in the first place.
Plsplspls buy from mee. Give that sweet sweet money. I neeed it soooo bad ~USA
Have they thanked us for buying their weapons yet…
And I don’t think they were wearing the right suits …
Sounds like the US is looking for reason to either sell their weapons … or use them
Any way you slice it … war means profit
I hope USA doesn’t sell to Russia…
What till Americans figure out where high quality small arms come from. Glock anyone? Beretta, Heckler & Koch, Benelli, Browning Arms Company (yes, Browning), SIG Sauer, Springfield Armory, Taurus (some), Chiappa, and more. And don’t forget our Filipino friends at Rock Island Armory!
Sadly, this part of the tariff shitshow may actually work since we already have plenty of quality domestic producers. But fuck me, the SIG Sauer is the standard US military sidearm and Glock is standard everywhere else. Have fun cop budgets!
I … can’t imagine the US government cares about that (excuse the pun) caliber of gun too much. Police guns will largely be paid for from municipal and state budgets rather than the federal budget, and there’s something larger at stake:
- Large US producers want to make profits, and I can’t imagine that small, extremely commoditized weapons are the best option for that.
- The US government would probably like gain more control over the EU. If the US were to attack Greenland, they’d probably be happier if EU nations were immobilized because [shenanigans].
I may be wrong.
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