Bloc aims to build up military-industrial complex to deter Russia and brace for the U.S. shift away from Europe.

BRUSSELS — United States arms-makers are being frozen out of the European Union’s massive new defense spending plan, which aims to splash the cash for EU and allied countries, according to defense spending plans released Wednesday.

Also left out — for now — is the United Kingdom.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    The same was true for Nazi Germany. They didn’t have the oil to run a war or many of the other resources, and they only had such amazing military success because every other nations was slow in rearming after the peace of the previous war. That and appeasement.