• jenesaisquoi@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    With Europe paying for them. The US president is oh so kind to allow us to buy them at full list price. Thanks, ally

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      4 days ago

      To be honest, I think that’s barely a footnote.

      Like, yeah, transfer some made up numbers from our computer to your computer, whatever. Money has a different meaning when it comes to the state that manages it spending it. ECB will adjust its interest rate a month later or something to make up for it. The issue right now is that Europe has neither stockpiles nor production capacity, so the USA sending their hardware is the game changer.

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        The issue right now is that Europe has neither stockpiles nor production capacity, so the USA sending their hardware is the game changer.

        And who’s fault is that? The US has been creating its own military industrial complex for the last 75 years, spending literally half of its budget on useless weapons that will barely get used, all at the cost of benefits that its citizens could have had.

        Meanwhile, Europe has two tugboats and some leftover AK-47s in a warehouse somewhere.

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          4 days ago

          It’s more like 15% of the whole annual budget. About half of the discretionary budget, but then you add in interest payments and social security and things like that.

          But yes, the rest of the Western world has been complacent as hell.