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  • Is there a more elegant way for the MIC to motivate Europe to create more weapon manufacturing capacities?

    These sorts of deals leave out US industrial complex. So they are not interessted. The US military is interessted in cheap weapons as well and scale lowers prices. The MIC wants high European defense spending on US weapons.

    If the USA and to an extend the entire West wants to keep their hegemonial power, China has to be contained.

    That requires the West to be somewhat united. The way the US deals with Ukraine right now, that is questioned by Europe. The trade war the US started with China, would be a lot easier, if Western “allies” like Europe, Japan and South Korea would help the US by also raising tariffs. However the US actually added tariffs on those “allies”. It is clearly not US strategy.

    The US wants Europe to spend more money on US made weapons.