President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s call on Kyiv to make concessions to end the war.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s call on Kyiv to make concessions to end the war.
The thing is that Europe will only buy whatever is not produced locally… yet.
Things like Patriots and the like. Europe can produce most stuff right now, and is working on the rest. Things like 6th Gen fighters are in the pipeline (if France stops dicking around, as usual, with their project direction fetish), patriot equivalents should be reasonably easy, etc. Politics is the usually the hurdle, but many multinational programs have been succesful, and there is a real incentive now.
Oh for sure… and this is a good thing. But Trump doesn’t give a shit if the US is fucked in the long term. If anything I think he wants to US to be fucked after he’s gone so the next guy will be considered a worse President in comparison.
Short term is US is selling weapons to Europe, and that’s all he cares about.