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Starya67
lemmy.world

Berlin is right. We need weapons ASAP and if we have to get them from abroad (not from the US, of course) so be it.

That said, I trust Merz about as far as I can throw him.

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small44reply
lemmy.world

Msybe they should stop selling weapon to Israel first

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slowcakesreply
programming.dev

It's not Amazon where they will ship the product when you order it, manufacturers usually don't have massive stock piles and it might already be a long order queue. And if everyone is gonna buy, well then the price will increase, its better to invest the money in local production and infrastructure

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Starya67reply
lemmy.world

My point was that they need to get arms where they can be produced ASAP. People think we have years, for some reason. Have you seen Trump's jingoistic remarks about NATO?

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cyrano
lemmy.dbzer0.com

They are both right. Macron is talking about not buying US weapons. Scholz is talking about cooperating with the UK, Norway and Turkey. Yes we should but European, but as a French general explained in a France 24 debate a couple of days ago there are certain items that we will need to buy from America in the short term as their are no European alternatives (e.g. P8 Poseidon, E3 Wedgetail).

We also shouldn’t rule out cooperation with Japan, RoK, Australia and Canada.

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F04118Freply
feddit.nl

Ackchually.. (adjusts glasses)

The E-3 AWACS is called Sentry and is the model that France and the UK currently operate. The more modern Wedgetail AWACS' model name is E-7

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Kuinox
lemmy.world

What about an european news outlet (and not behind a paywall)

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Kuinoxreply
lemmy.world

And UK isn't in EU. Isn't there a big EU flag on this community ?

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platinumreply
feddit.uk

You mean the community that's on the UK instance?

Also, there's already a community specifically for EU purchases

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Kuinoxreply
lemmy.world

That's a bit stupid to put an eu flag here then.

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Kuinoxreply
lemmy.world

While technically it's the Flag of Europe, it's associated as the EU Flag.
By using this, peoples will think it means EU, not Europe.

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mannycalaverareply
feddit.uk

Only petty captious people will think that. It's pretty fucking obvious what this community is about.

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tscheskyreply
lemm.ee

"You proved me wrong the first time, let me come up with some other bullshit"

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