This a momentous and dangerous time for Europe.
And we are ready to step up.
Today, we announce the ReArm Europe Plan, a bold initiative to mobilise up to €800 billion for European security.
It will help EU countries quickly and significantly boost expenditures in defence capabilities.
We are in an era of rearmament. And Europe is ready to massively boost its defence spending.
Press release: https://europa.eu/!MFPVMC
@EUCommission
So you buy all the armement in USA, don't you?
Are you sure that there is nothing in there which could disable it all by a push of a button?
I would consider US material the same way what you did with Huawai because of China.
@gunstick @EUCommission There is no killswitch, but US could achieve the same goal by refusing to provide spare parts, ammunition, generation of new encryption keys, and other forms of support. Especially air forces would be very vulnerable to this.
@gunstick @EUCommission I read it as ending support for those jammers, so basically refusing to adjust them for any changes that Russia makes. So they are still useful right now, but will drop in usefulness in time.
But yeah, dropping support is almost a delayed killswitch. I bet many countries are now reconsidering their purchases of US aircraft. Not all of them, as some have plenty of control over their planes, like Israel which has its own EW system in their F-35I.
@elgregor @EUCommission The kill switch just got activated right now. Isn't that cool?
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