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Comment by bluGill

3 days ago

Perhaps but the US was pushing NATO to invest more in war for years suggesting they didn't believe war was in the past

Correction: The US was pushing NATO to invest more in US gear.

  • That was the hope but nothing stopped the EU from making their own stuff.

    • This is not true, since the 1990 the us was strongly opposed on the eu building or relying more on own defense industry and more closely aligned defence policy, even threatening end of NATO. Lookup the "three Ds" articulated later by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: No Duplication of NATO assets, No Decoupling of European security from the US, and No Discrimination against NATO members who were not in the EU.