• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOP
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    1 day ago

    High time we stop buying weapons from the US. The only reason paying the wildly overpriced gear is to have them provide military support when needed. If that’s not happening… then it makes no sense spending that money. Build it locally or buy it from the cheapest supplier.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      That has already happened, looking at the orders placed and what it means for the US military industrial companies, they are about to lose hundreds of man years when looking at the loss of new orders and service contracts.

      This channel has done several break downs of the Trump regime’s politics with regards to weapon system orders:

      https://youtu.be/m1387Gm9KiE

      • optissima (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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        Military industrial will just do what they’ve done in the past: invest heavily in some European-accepted non-US arms company, shift the board and funding over, and allow it to absorb the US-side of the business. This playbook happened in WWI and WWII. Check out who is investing in Ukraine to become the new center of drone manufacturing, which is the newest big tech.

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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      Everyone else is making deals to partner with Ukraine, Co produce weapons in Ukraine and learn everything they can from the only modern battlefield there is.

      Drumpf is cutting them loose and leaving the US in the last century