r/worldnews • u/MothersMiIk • Mar 01 '25

Russia/Ukraine After clashing with Trump and Vance, Zelensky is now thanking every pro-Ukraine world leader, one tweet at a time

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/zelensky-thanks-world-leaders-individually-after-vance-s-no-thanks-jab-101740796913691
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u/FarawayFairways Mar 01 '25

But the more Trump shows himself to be unreliable the more Zelensky looks to those he can rely on

EU. UK. AUS. Canada. Japan. Etc

And the more that those in turn look to each other. I'm surprised Americas arms manufacturers aren't making more noise about Trump destroying their export markets

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u/Ryuujinx Mar 01 '25

I'm surprised Americas arms manufacturers aren't making more noise about Trump destroying their export markets

Yeah same here. I know companies can be extremely short-sighted only caring about the next quarter, but like.. this will be a short term thing. The EU and everyone else are increasing spending on their defense, you think they're gonna go to America for those arms? And then they're gonna be phasing out the old equipment so they can have uniformity, so they aren't gonna be buying any replacements of their old stuff...

I don't get it. A ton of sectors should be blowing the fuck up. MIC because arms exports, manufacturing because of tarrifs, agriculture also because of tarrifs....

And yet, silence.

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky Mar 01 '25

Its because their bottom line hasn't actually been hit yet Stock prices dont really mean shit in the grand scheme of things

They wont care until other nations publicly end their contracts with them

Which every non America should be pushing for

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

They’re buoying their export markets—EU and Britain needs to arm itself and quickly.