• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    Europe needs to own its own weapon production pipeline, rather than depending on a supplier who may cut them off at any time.

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      I don’t know how much of a killswitch the US has on their hardware. What if you use a plane of theirs in a way they don’t approve of?

      I’d be wary of buying complex US hardware.

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    We’ve got it all at the Europoruium war machines emporium

    The Europorium – Where Power Meets Precision!

    Your One-Stop Shop for the Best European Military Vehicles!

    We got leopards, bulldogs, zippy french boy, zippy Swedish boy, cv90,mlrs, zippy franko German tiger, cv90, hail Caesar boom boy,cv90.

    All at the low low price of fuck around and find out

    Cv90 sold separately

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    The countries who have made more wars than any other, but have been in peace for some decades:

    “Fine, we’ll stop pretending being nice, lets get back to the old days. But together this time.”

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      the speech of Laurent Fabius that tried to turn France into something it is not:

      “It’s time to receive the peace dividend”

      France is historically a warmonger and it’s not healthy for a country not to accept what they are so it’s time for the whole world to eat baguette. a baguette for you, and for you and a funny mushroom baguette for you because you have been nasty: baguettes for everyone!

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      The first panel shows US made weapons such as the M1 Abrams tank, the Patriot surface-to-air missile system (here mounted onto a German made MAN gl truck), M142 HIMARS system (mounted onto a US made M1140 truck), the F-16, the F-35 F-15 or a Virginia class submarine, systems that “the US” thinks the European nations will buy when they invest into their military.

      The second panel shows European made weapon systems, such as the Leopard 2 tank, the IRIS-T SLM system (again on MAN), the SAMP/T Aster system (mounted onto a Renault 8×4 truck), Saab Jas 39 Gripen Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon or the future French SNLE 3G submarine, systems, that the Europeans probably will buy instead.