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U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers’ participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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    “Here’s a tariff! Fuck you!”

    We don’t trust you anymore. We won’t buy from you

    “Noooo, but you must!”

    Fuck 'em.

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    MAGA: AMERICA FIRST!

    Rest of world: OK, I guess we need to put ourselves first, too.

    MAGA: NOT LIKE THAT!

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    According to two of the sources, Rubio said any exclusion of U.S. companies from European tenders would be seen negatively by Washington,

    Ah ah ah ! “Would be seen negatively”… Ah ah ah !

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    We want Greenland. We think you are all worthless freeloaders. We wish to kill your businesses with tariffs because you dared to sell us things (and we don’t care how bad that will be for our people. My voters are too stupid and brainwashed to care and the opposition doesn’t matter)… Also buy our weapons!

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    I dunno I heard some American with a spray tan say that they didn’t need Europe or Canada…

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    Well … We want you to put the orange turd in jail and quit being dicks to everybody. You can’t always get what you want, can you?

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    They say this after taunting Germany last month on a visit in Munich where they basically said you‘d have to have military power to be sovereign.

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    Maybe they should object to the reasons that made us buying European in the first place.

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    What till Americans figure out where high quality small arms come from. Glock anyone? Beretta, Heckler & Koch, Benelli, Browning Arms Company (yes, Browning), SIG Sauer, Springfield Armory, Taurus (some), Chiappa, and more. And don’t forget our Filipino friends at Rock Island Armory!

    Sadly, this part of the tariff shitshow may actually work since we already have plenty of quality domestic producers. But fuck me, the SIG Sauer is the standard US military sidearm and Glock is standard everywhere else. Have fun cop budgets!

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      I … can’t imagine the US government cares about that (excuse the pun) caliber of gun too much. Police guns will largely be paid for from municipal and state budgets rather than the federal budget, and there’s something larger at stake:

      • Large US producers want to make profits, and I can’t imagine that small, extremely commoditized weapons are the best option for that.
      • The US government would probably like gain more control over the EU. If the US were to attack Greenland, they’d probably be happier if EU nations were immobilized because [shenanigans].

      I may be wrong.