Pyro as Bill said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
LNG: Canada. Military Hardware: We'll produce them ourselves now. Those 800 Billion € will get spent for the most part on European products, and Military Hardware production is increasing fast throughout Europe. Net loser: The US, especially considering that until the 2010's more than half of the military hardware bought in Europe was American-made. But going forward this number will go down drastically entirely due to Trump. I'm sure the Military-industrial Complex in the US is very thankful already to Trump already for losing hundreds of billions in potential contracts by default already now. |
Canada doesn't have the capacity yet and Europe will freeze over Winter before they do.....without US LNG. Yeah we'll make our own except if we did that already we wouldn't be buying US. Kind of ironic that the only other bloc that could seriously compete with the US is Europe but it would mean "securing" energy from the ME and Russia and no-one has the balls. They spent 3 years debating whether it's ok to send long range missiles meanwhile Trump lowkey kills the Russian economy. |
Canada absolutely has the capacity - they were exporting it to the US already. So instead of going through the US before going to Europe, why not cut out the middleman?
Oh, and Europe already did and does. But for some things it was just easier to buy American surplus. That's going away now, and the few gaps there are in armament that Europe doesn't have, like a stealth fighter for instance, is in active development anyway. Perun made an interesting video about it with every single EU-nation producing something for an European army without any American involvement. While a bit tongue-in-cheek (some countries don't produce any military equipment but for his video, they had to produce something), he managed to fill almost every niche with European or European-produced equipment
So yes, cutting out the US is absolutely possible. And the billions lost for the US will sting a lot!