US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia(ft.com)
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US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia
https://www.ft.com/content/0157d5f9-1b27-4d6c-b44e-f0a77da59b5d
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EU countries should purchase fewer US weapons in the equivalent amount.
They should certainly up their own defense capabilities.
We're getting there, takes time for EU defense to spin up.
> We can keep going. In March, a leading Danish defense official acknowledged his country’s F-35 purchases, but expressed regret over the decision. “[B]uying American weapons is a security risk that we cannot run,” Rasmus Jarlov, the chair of Denmark’s parliamentary defense committee wrote on social media, adding: “We must avoid American weapons if at all possible.”
https://www.defensemirror.com/news/40014
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-35-has-a-double-tr...
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/switzerland-weighs-cuts-...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/f-35-fig...
> We can keep going. In March, a leading Danish defense official acknowledged his country’s F-35 purchases, but expressed regret over the decision. “[B]uying American weapons is a security risk that we cannot run,” Rasmus Jarlov, the chair of Denmark’s parliamentary defense committee wrote on social media, adding: “We must avoid American weapons if at all possible.”
https://www.defensemirror.com/news/40014
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-35-has-a-double-tr...
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/switzerland-weighs-cuts-...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/f-35-fig...