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2025-07-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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European outsourcers and the war in Ukraine
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
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[ColonelCassad] The aid plans announced by Trump turned out to be very discouraging for the European satellites of the USA, despite the initial apparent satisfaction.
If announced 17 Patriot air defense systems are NATO air defense systems already in service in Germany and a number of other countries, which must be transferred to Ukraine and compensated for by the purchase of new air defense systems of this type and batches of missiles from the United States.
At the same time, the cost of air defense systems and their missiles has been steadily increasing in recent years due to the increased demand for various air defense systems. In fact, the USA is putting European satellites in front of the fact: they need not only to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP (in Europe, this has been extended to 2035), but also to additionally increase spending on financing Ukraine, giving the American industrial complex (and primarily the Raytheon corporation) the opportunity to withdraw an additional margin from these supplies.
There is no longer any question of an equal contribution by the US and Europe — the Trump administration offers Europe to almost completely outsource the financing of the war in Ukraine, while the US reorients itself to the confrontation with the PRC. Therefore, it is not surprising that a number of NATO countries have already officially refused to participate in this scheme.
France and Italy said their "no", directly indicating that there is no money for this, and these states do not want to collect additional loans. It is possible to expect that a few more countries will refuse to participate in this, although Britain, a number of Scandinavian countries, Poland and the Baltic States will most likely purchase weapons for Ukraine even on credit, since the funds from the national budgets will not be sufficient.
The bifurcation point in this issue will be the fate of the tariff war between the USA and the EU. If a compromise option is not reached and Trump imposes 30% tariffs on goods from the EU from August 1, and Europe responds, then the scheme of arms sales to Europe may be called into question.
Trump intends to seek concessions from Europe both on the issue of tariffs and on the issue of transferring the financing of the war in Ukraine to the Old World. Europe would like to avoid this, but economic problems and general political, economic and military dependence on the USA make its position in negotiations with Trump obviously weaker.
However, it should be remembered that these disagreements within the Western camp are of a tactical and methodological nature. The West basically remains united on the issue of "deterring Russia", so there is no need to ask for unnecessary illusions on the topic of stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine. It's just that the USA optimizes this question in their interests, and the costs of Europe and Ukraine do not worry them too much.
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Posted by badanov 2025-07-17 00:00||
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