“[Putin] does not stop stressing what he’s really longing for, like, a renaissance of the Soviet empire,” Pistorius said of Putin. “He wants to be the dominant power in Europe. […]”
Germany’s biggest defense contractor, Rheinmetall, and its subsidiaries have won a commanding share of recent government contracts.
Rheinmetall was one of Germany’s major arms producers during WWI and WWII.
That ”buy European” shit is so funny. What do you think is going to have more of a geopolitical impact, some people deciding to BuY EuRoPeAn, or most European countries agreeing to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP because of NATO?
Besides, we saw some of this during Trump’s first term (and Bush’s time in office too), when a respectable adult
was in office again, all the US criticism evaporated.
The buy European shit is a way western Europeans can be racist to everyone else without being “barbaric racists, like the rural and urban poors” it’s just white nationalism with a thick coat of 2016 liberalism