‘Shocked’ reaction to White House Zelensky meeting sends Europe defense stocks soaring

Good. Europe can deal with this problem.

We should never have gotten involved.

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Oh no! There goes Z’s US supporters main reason to have killed over a million innocent Slavs, Our Blood Money!

Holy pump and dump, Batman!

Mr. President, a request.

Some shock and awe tomorrow night aimed at our...SNORT...allies.

If our tax money’s been going to keep Europe’s welfare states afloat, how about dropping a few receipts.

And letting them know we want our money back.

I wonder if the Euros will insist on Renewable Energy to power all this military hardware they will acquire.

Battery powered Tanks and APCs are the future, if climate change is existential, then renewable energy vehicles are required.

WOW talk, talk, talk. I hope they do provide their own defense. They are going to need it after the muzzards they invited in, and adore so much, get really uppity.

The fact that Europe is the biggest buyer of US arms allows the US military to benefit from the manufacturing scale these sales generate. The fear circling in European capitals is that because they buy from the US the US has say over their defense policy. If they want to support Ukraine and the US says no, then they can’t send any hardware which contains US tech. That’s probably most of it. If we lose those sales, then the cost of the US military will go up a lot and we won’t get any benefit from all that extra money we’ll have to spend. Knowing Congress, they’ll simply trim the budget. The navy, especially, is in critically bad shape from all the continuing budgets of the last twenty years. You can’t plan on new ships or upgrades to infrastructure if you only get whatever you got last year.

Oh, the European leaders might spend some more money on weapons.

They’ll spend ten billion bucks and buy some yachts and mansions and give Ukraine some shovels.

Can someone please explain to me why anyone would be delusional enough to think that Russia would actually want to saddle itself with any of Western Europe’s welfare states?!

Call Putin’s and Western Europe’s bluff.

Tell Pootie Poot that he can have Western Europe with our blessing.

The only warning: NO BACKSIES.

Somebody’s getting rich off all this.

But we are all being manipulated Europe’s aircraft carriers (Italy and France) in Pacific waters in the last year.

The UK’s carrier “Prince of Wales” headed there.

German and Canadian warships transit the Taiwan Strait as well as American ones.

It’s about China when I was younger inside the beltway thinking was China would be the problem by this time.

Donald Trump has positioned his words-actions on China to meet the long-term thinking and planning inside the beltway.

Europe can wear the “Ukraine Mask” to justify diverting spending away from foreign aid and social programs but its about confronting China in the end.

I think the world is shocked that Trump pushed back and didn't fellate Z when he came to the Whitehouse. This was like when a real Alpha approached the prettiest girl in the room and didn't put up with her haughty, entitled attitude.. You know who left with the girl. I saw the beginnings of a real end to this. No Z cannot count on the slavish support and copious money. I think he is looking for a way out. There is NO pressure he cannot exert on Trump. Noce to have a guy in the Whitehouse who is acting Churchillian.

Trump attitude...I could really give a shit about whose flag is over your country at this point. You both suck.

Oh, lookie! Trump is going to strengthen their economies as well as ours.

Issuers / Arms industry (US markets), Brave search results, “From sources across the web”

AeroVironment
Axon Enterprise
BAE Systems
Boeing
Byrna Technologies
Embraer
General Dynamics Corp
General Electric
HEICO
Honeywell International, Inc.
Howmet Aerospace
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Intuitive Machines
Lockheed Martin
Momentus Inc
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Raytheon
Redwire
Rheinmetall
Rocket Lab USA Inc
RTX Corporation
Thales Group
TransDigm Group
United Technologies Corporation
Vertical Aerospace
Virgin Galactic

[Palantir, which I regard as a house of cards, run by a Max Headroom lookalike, also gets a chunk of its business from the DoD, but the bubble on that one has recently declined 33%.]