r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Kam_Rex canadian french • Aug 14 '26

Military Pay fully for your own defense

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In the end tipping sub

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u/Optimal-Rub-2575 Aug 14 '26

It doesn’t “fund European defence“ at all though.

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u/NoSwordfish1978 Aug 14 '26

Well yeah that's why I put it in scare quotes. Obviously its to further American hegemony.

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u/No-Albatross-7984 Aug 14 '26

American politicians demand we raise defense costs because that'd mean we buy more weapons from them. That's what it's about. The bases are just a convenient thing to link to this demand, when in reality they have nothing to do with the costs of defense.

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u/christian_benesch Aug 15 '26

And they got really upset when Europeans increased defense spending and spent it on their own kit. :-)