Europe is determined to rearm to be able to defend itself and stop depending on the United States. However, if he decides to buy American weapons to increase his defense, will continue to depend on Washington.
It is a debate that has been opened in Germany Following the f-35 fighters: just by clicking a button, the US government is able to disable them. This is what they call the “Death switch”which allows these war airplanes remotely, a mechanism that they already used in Afghanistan after the American withdrawal.
This concern extends through Europe. Modern weapons constantly require Software updates On the part of the manufacturer and, therefore, in Germany they wonder if it makes sense to continue buying them. Each hunting costs 8,000 million euros.
“Products as complex as F35 depend on technologies and products that are not just Americanswhich are from a few European countries too, “says Yago RodrÃguez, director of ‘The Political Room’, in Al Rojo Vivo, where he warns that” there may be answers if they adopt this type of measures. “
A dependency that goes beyond conventional weapons and that can also affect the Nuclear weaponsespecially to the British. And it is that the United Kingdom’s armed submarines also depend on Washington: without the Trident Balistic missiles, manufactured in the United States, London loses its nuclear deterrence.
The problem is devilish, because Europe has no capacity to produce its own armament. In fact, almost 80% buys it outside and most come precisely from the United States, an ally that nobody trusts anymore.
Source: Lasexta
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