Submission Statement: “Europe’s defenses against Russia will be at risk if Washington opts for neutrality and degrades the technology vital for US-made fighters and weapons systems. It needs to act fast.” Andrii Vdovychenko discusses Europe’s growing concerns about its reliance on US weapons, as NATO members imported over 60% of their weaponry from the US between 2020 and 2024. Doubts about the reliability of US support have surfaced, with countries like Canada and Portugal reconsidering their purchases of F-35 aircraft. The situation reflects a deeper rift in transatlantic trust, highlighting the need for Europe to bolster its own defense capabilities.
Smells like Western countries not trusting Chinese tech…just saying
Yes, why not?
No, not under this administration. The US is going to have to pass some major legislation to regain trust and investor confidence
stop posting these anti-american propaganda!!1! absolutely everyone can trust american weapons like the himars, there is no way the us can simply shutdown or in other ways severely hamper the effectiveness of them.
keep buying f35s and other american weapons that are very much dependent on continued support from the us
You use the word “Europe” as if it were a unitary state. What do you mean by Europe? If you mean the EU, that is a customs union without a defense policy. NATO is a relic of the Cold War. If today the geopolitical interests of European states do not clash too much, that may not be the case tomorrow. The answer to this question determines the answer to yours.
>“We like to tone them down about 10 percent, which probably makes sense because someday maybe they’re not our allies, right?” the president said.
here is your answer – no
The weapons? Sure. The supply of technical components and things like ammunition. No, never again.
Interesting conversation but full speculation. The EU won’t take lip service of any administration, whether Bush, Obama, Biden or Trump. That’s why France, Germany and UK have some of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers and that won’t change — even if we go back to the ultra pacifist politics that have been popular in Central Europe in the early 2000s until 2022.
The thing about the kill switch theory I keep seeing everywhere is that a kill switch would only ever be able to be used once. Use it, or just have it discovered, and no one will so much as buy an American rifle for the rest of time.
They can trust them once.
Until they need to be back on the ground.
No. And what Trump has proved is that it doesn’t matter if some sanity comes back to the Whitehouse in 4 years if someone can dismantle our trust in the US in less than 3 months. The US will have a hard time getting our trust back, if it ever will. I hope sanity prevails and that we in a decade or two can get back trusting eachother again. But it will never be the same.
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Submission Statement: “Europe’s defenses against Russia will be at risk if Washington opts for neutrality and degrades the technology vital for US-made fighters and weapons systems. It needs to act fast.” Andrii Vdovychenko discusses Europe’s growing concerns about its reliance on US weapons, as NATO members imported over 60% of their weaponry from the US between 2020 and 2024. Doubts about the reliability of US support have surfaced, with countries like Canada and Portugal reconsidering their purchases of F-35 aircraft. The situation reflects a deeper rift in transatlantic trust, highlighting the need for Europe to bolster its own defense capabilities.
Smells like Western countries not trusting Chinese tech…just saying
Yes, why not?
No, not under this administration. The US is going to have to pass some major legislation to regain trust and investor confidence
stop posting these anti-american propaganda!!1! absolutely everyone can trust american weapons like the himars, there is no way the us can simply shutdown or in other ways severely hamper the effectiveness of them.
keep buying f35s and other american weapons that are very much dependent on continued support from the us
You use the word “Europe” as if it were a unitary state. What do you mean by Europe? If you mean the EU, that is a customs union without a defense policy. NATO is a relic of the Cold War. If today the geopolitical interests of European states do not clash too much, that may not be the case tomorrow. The answer to this question determines the answer to yours.
>“We like to tone them down about 10 percent, which probably makes sense because someday maybe they’re not our allies, right?” the president said.
here is your answer – no
The weapons? Sure. The supply of technical components and things like ammunition. No, never again.
Interesting conversation but full speculation. The EU won’t take lip service of any administration, whether Bush, Obama, Biden or Trump. That’s why France, Germany and UK have some of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers and that won’t change — even if we go back to the ultra pacifist politics that have been popular in Central Europe in the early 2000s until 2022.
The thing about the kill switch theory I keep seeing everywhere is that a kill switch would only ever be able to be used once. Use it, or just have it discovered, and no one will so much as buy an American rifle for the rest of time.
They can trust them once.
Until they need to be back on the ground.
No. And what Trump has proved is that it doesn’t matter if some sanity comes back to the Whitehouse in 4 years if someone can dismantle our trust in the US in less than 3 months. The US will have a hard time getting our trust back, if it ever will. I hope sanity prevails and that we in a decade or two can get back trusting eachother again. But it will never be the same.
No
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