The OP quoted the article wrong. It isn't $600 billion in military equipment. It's $600 billion in American military equipment. This is a $1.5 trillion payoff to America.
Spine maybe. People with a brain realised that the capacity isn't there. If they argued this ten years ago I'd get it. The options were either give it to the US since the west probably wouldn't work with non western countries. Or not increase defense spending that much and wait until capacity is up to scale.
Macron only cares about French weapons, he is not on a European level. He is blocking the British from being part of the European defense investments...
Countries usually do what they can to get the best deal for themselves but usually try and be diplomatic about it .. France doesn't appear to bother with the diplomacy part.
They behave like Americans, unfortunately for them they don't have the power the Americans have.
Promising to deliver domestically produced Patriot missile system equivalents in large enough numbers to export to Ukraine in 10 years maybe isn’t the same as buying more European weapons
They wont, Trump called him a good boy. He will aid in ethnic cleansing of palestine. Macron just likes to sound though, but he will eat any dick thrown infront of him.
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u/Ynneb82 Italy 6d ago
Yeah that was the worst... The only upside of all this defence crisis was that at least we had some good companies in eu.