Comment by mlrtime
12 days ago
>It's more of a co-dependence. When it comes to military we have fallen behind significantly, but the EU member states also doesn't want to spend a trillion euros a year on it.
Yes, you get it. And the American tax payers also don't want to fund EU lack of spending on military. We are all in agreement.
I meant the EU doesn't want to spend the money on it's own R&D. It would rather give American companies hundreds of billions.
It's the US preference that the EU doesn't spend too much, it doesn't want to compete. See nuclear deterrence.