• alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    Europeans are finally increasing their defense spending. Asking them nicely for the last decade didn’t work.

    • MBech@feddit.dk
      2·
      5 days ago

      Sure they’re increasing their defense spending. But not really in the interest of USA.

      USA wanted european defense spending to increase for multiple reasons:

      1. To funnel european money into the american military industrial complex.
      • This isn’t happening right now. Europeans are prioriticing european contractors.
      1. To fight in american wars of agression around the world.
      • Fat fucking chance when USA is threatening wars of agression against NATO countries.
      1. To defend against Russia.
      • With Putin owning Trump, this is now against Trump’s interests.
      • While the threat from Russia is pretty big, they’re not in any way in a position to fight anything bigger than Ukraine.
      • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        5 days ago

        Or, hear me out, maybe the Americans simply didn’t want to pick up the tab for European defense.

        Russia is a much bigger problem for Europe than for the US.