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Russia owns the US now, the government is now quasi openly putins bitch. Our old allies need to prepare for the worst! War is coming. EU needs to protect Ukraine and make damn sure it's an overwhelming defeat for russia as Ukraine is already on the front lines of the war.
Russia won the cold war. Reagan, that piece of shit, would be turning over in his grave. Especially since he removed the final road blocks.
American capitalist doing American capitalism Americanly
"Holy shit, this is just like living in the USSR."
Trump has very nakedly and explicitly said he wants to increase arms sales to Europe and is holding US support in NATO hostage to this effect. This is entirely because the Silicon Valley tech sector has gone long on US arms sales and wants to make the Big Number Go Up.
Peter Thiel's plan to shove Palantir down the throats of every Olaf, Macron, and Meloni isn't an insidious Russian plot to reconquer Bulgaria. Its the American MIC trying to squeeze a bit more profit out of the periphery one more time.
Alternatively they want to make an authoritarian police state at home and sell those systems to other autocrats.
And we should answer by increasing our military spending... On local products.
I'm sure France and the UK will be thrilled.
Care to elaborate?
https://www.statista.com/chart/18417/global-weapons-exports/
I see other two European countries above the UK in that chart...? And 5 out of 8 are from Europe anyway (not counting Russia, because of obvious reasons)
What specifically do you mean when you say Reagan removed the roadblocks?