European bureucrats like von der Leyen are spineless American lapdogs. They will apologise and kiss Trump’s feet. They always have.

The whole point of Europe handing our defense companies to the rear view mirror is to get away from relying on us. I as a american hope they do. The more they do the smaller US defense companies become and that is a good thing for america and its citizens.

Considering that we may have WW3 started by the United States, I very much approve of Europe and friends cutting out America. It would be preferable if they had fully vetted and stockpiled arms, rather than makeshift drones made out of bedframes.

Quick, bring out the bicycle meme.

The US has a president who's gone to great length in demonstrating that the US is unreliable and could be treacherous.

For example, why should Denmark or its allies (the entire EU and NATO) buy weapons from a country whose president has indicated that he dreams of annexing Greenland?

The situation currently is such: Ukraine needs weapons right now, and will happily use European money to buy US weapons. But purchases where multiple alternatives are viable, and there's no hurry? Countries have started preferring their own weapons, or those of countries that are in the same boat. Depending solely on the US is seen as a vulnerability now.

Here in Eastern Europe, if offered a choice between a hypothetic identical US missile and a Swedish missile, I would consider it likely that supplies of the US missile may be absent at a critical time, while supplies of a Swedish missile will surely increase at a critical time. They're under the same umbrella and will help patch it if someone tries breaking it.

Maybe that’s because we pissed everybody off.

The US just needs to pull itself up by the bootstraps and keep applying to more countries to land a contract.

Just wait until the post-tariff trade deals start hitting in a year or two.

America doesn't have any idea yet the scope of disaster that Donald has created, and the worst part is that he and the other billionaires are insulated from it.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Wednesday slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers

BITCH YOU LITERALLY TOLD US THAT IS WHAT YOU WANTED.

Get fucked. I don't consider the US allies anyway, we don't ally with fascists.

Edit: i have been informed that I am to ease on the hyperbole, so correction: read the former through a lens of less hyperbole, violence is bad

Why didn't Europe protect me from the consequences of my own actions?

It's like they're not trusting the US for the defence of their sovereignty. That's weird. I wonder why.

Tarriftopia complaining about "protectionist and exclusionary policies that bully American companies out of the market" is amazing.

Dear USA,

Womp womp.

Sincerely,

Everywhere Else.

...as a US citizen, i am ashamed.

European here. Good. Our elected officials are not yet so stupid as to think that stupid man has any actual sense.

Womp womp.

thoughts and prayers 

Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.

Ok, we can make it all arms programs.

America isn't a peer anymore.

Hasn't the regime been tell them to do more for their own defenses? Why are they getting mad at them for doing what was asked?

Good. Give nothing to the us of fascistland. Even Canada is going to switch to Europe for planes etc.

Biggest global rearming since WW1 and people are cheering about it like they don't understand what happens next.

The EU is buying a ton of American weapons though?

When is US going to start buying Eurofighter or Leopard 2 then?

Looks like a smug fuck.

respond by expelling thier embassies.

slammed