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2025-03-16 Europe

How dependent are Europe's militaries on the US?

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-16 01:18|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ] Top

#1 Biden is the one that encouraged Putin's adventurism, not President Trump.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-03-16 13:22|| 2025-03-16 13:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Logistics. As soon as they go anywhere they need US logistics support.

Posted by magpie 2025-03-16 18:39|| 2025-03-16 18:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Europe collectively ~~outproduces~~ out subsidizes the US in steel, civil aircraft, vehicles and ships. The US has been shipping our blue collar industrial jobs from our merchant marine to our steel mills overseas for decades and now the US has to depend on foreigners (*Cough* China *Cough*)

Posted by magpie 2025-03-16 18:43|| 2025-03-16 18:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Ukrainian troops in the field reported yesterday that they came under instant attack from artillery and drones as soon as they activated their Starlink terminals.

Ah, Russia has launched a lot of spy sats recently. My guess is that they notice a StarLink terminal connect, geolocate it and target it.

Posted by 3dc 2025-03-16 18:48|| 2025-03-16 18:48|| Front Page Top

#5 As to industrial plants.
Tesla's giga-Berlin plant freaked out the German auto companies.

VW as an example has over 100 plants and 127,000 industrial workers to produce for Europe less cars than giga-Berlin does with less than 8,000 workers.

They need to rethink their industrial infra-structure. Esp as to how one makes a product and plant naturals for each-other.

Posted by 3dc 2025-03-16 18:55|| 2025-03-16 18:55|| Front Page Top

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