😳 "We sell weapons to Europeans, who then give them to Ukrainians, and President Trump puts a 10% markup on these weapons," - Bessent "…so maybe these 10% will cover the cost of air cover."
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US is a merc state
aug 20, 2025, 9:42 am • 0 0 • view
There you go! Grifters with no integrity or values. 🤮
aug 20, 2025, 8:19 am • 0 0 • view
Arschloch!
aug 20, 2025, 8:29 am • 0 0 • view
what does it mean exactly by “air cover”? Is he talking about patriot missiles or enforcing a no fly zone over Ukraine with F-22 and F-35?
aug 20, 2025, 7:52 am • 0 0 • view
so does Trump just keep the 10% markup? Europe plans to buy $100 billion in US weapons for Ukraine. So 10% of that just goes to Trump’s pocket?
aug 20, 2025, 7:47 am • 1 0 • view
#FCKtRUmp
aug 20, 2025, 8:29 am • 0 0 • view
It’s high time Europe becomes self reliant on this topic entirely. Not only is the US not supporting Ukraine directly anymore, they make Europeans buy their weapons systems AND add a surcharge on top. Genuinely disgusting, as everything under this regime.
aug 20, 2025, 7:57 am • 3 0 • view
Imagine the NATO partners had categorically ruled out their support for the one time Article 5 was invoked or made the country calling it pay extra for their support. Unthinkable.
aug 20, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
The "America First" principle leads to an "America Last" situation when it comes to willingness to support US military interventions. To be honest, European countries have been used as a shield to cover up the corporate interests behind them.
aug 20, 2025, 8:32 am • 4 0 • view
So we are now buying US weapons surplus stockpiles for top level prices to support UA. And the US will even charge us for the shipping to Europe! What part of support will US supply in this effort?
aug 20, 2025, 7:33 am • 8 1 • view
Great! By making American made weapons more expensive you get the market forces to put more investment into European manufacturing capacity over time, making the switch to more autonomy from the US happen faster.
aug 20, 2025, 7:35 am • 13 0 • view
The boss gotta get his cut.
aug 20, 2025, 9:29 am • 0 0 • view
Imbecile
aug 20, 2025, 8:28 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I'm sure the 10% markup will be used to provide air cover. I wonder how the markup will be shared between U.S. defense contractors, the government, and Trump personally? Who knows? Next year, the markup may increase to 20%! The grift continues.
aug 20, 2025, 7:41 am • 0 0 • view
what exactly does he mean by air cover? Is he talking about enforcing a no fly zone over Ukraine with F 35?
aug 20, 2025, 7:50 am • 0 0 • view
It is the Europeans who are being generous and supportive of Ukraine, as they have been all along. Biden gave arms to Ukraine. Trump sells them. Trump is Putin-aligned, and needs convincing even to sell the weapons. He is painfully slow in understanding that Putin is no friend+out to destroy the US.
aug 20, 2025, 7:42 am • 3 1 • view
Trump has smelled the money. We Europeans have smelled the blood.
aug 20, 2025, 8:25 am • 0 0 • view
One big beautiful deal!
aug 20, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Hopefully, this will be the insult that forces Europeans to integrate their defence spending and manufacturing bases in order to build European. I doubt it, but I do hope so. The USA is profiteering from Europe’s weakness.
aug 20, 2025, 8:27 am • 0 0 • view
We will in Europe and with other partners (f.e. Korea, Canada) produce more and more our own weapons and will give a shit about US production. Not a reliable partner anymore!
aug 20, 2025, 7:46 am • 6 0 • view
When grifting = betrayal. Bessent, Witkoff, Trump and their other rich friends are rotting, soulless husks who only care about money and power for the sake of power. They do nothing of any real value to anyone.
aug 20, 2025, 7:46 am • 7 0 • view
Nu but of course. This is called a true ally. Wonderful. If anyone from European politicians will ever tell that americans are the best allies...I might disagree
aug 20, 2025, 7:32 am • 0 0 • view
Spoken like a true GRIFTER, after his god
aug 20, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 1 • view
Disgusting. Trump is now putting a 10% tax/tariff on the price of US military exports to Europe. If this doesn’t fully accelerate the European military industrial complex nothing will. The US is not an ally.
aug 20, 2025, 7:34 am • 20 0 • view
It could not be any clearer. If you want US support, you pay for everything. 100% transactional, 0% to do with existing alliances, and even this comes with no credible guarantee of delivery. The US cannot be trusted.
aug 20, 2025, 7:44 am • 10 0 • view
also, US weapons can be blocked from being used against Russia if Putin calls Trump
aug 20, 2025, 7:48 am • 2 0 • view
Unreliable partners are enemies of the future. Europe must get rid of US weapons soon.
aug 20, 2025, 8:07 am • 0 0 • view
With friends like these...
aug 20, 2025, 7:46 am • 3 0 • view
Europe (& other locations: Canada, Australia etc) will soon ramp up further production of weaponry so they have to rely on the US less-and-less over time.
aug 20, 2025, 7:31 am • 22 0 • view
One should certainly hope so. It's not like the US madness goes away with trump. They did elected that twat twice already.
aug 20, 2025, 7:36 am • 12 0 • view
yep. I also would NOT trust Trump with his supposed offer of ‘air support’ for Ukr—-which would be more like ‘Let me find out critical Ukrainian battle intel.. & pass it on to Vlad’ 🫣🫣😵💫😵💫 as much as Ukr NEEDS that air support, whew.. they/Europe will have to tread soooo carefully trusting that fkr
aug 20, 2025, 7:39 am • 2 0 • view
USeless, or USe less 😂
aug 20, 2025, 11:01 am • 0 0 • view
The art of the steal
aug 20, 2025, 9:03 am • 1 0 • view
History will show what a shit Country USA became. Not the defender of democracy for sure. EU, Ukraine and other western true allies must form a new NATO. NOT include USA, Hungary, Turkey.
aug 20, 2025, 7:58 am • 6 0 • view
And they dare to boast about it? 10% less weaponry for the Ukrainians 🤬
aug 20, 2025, 7:45 am • 5 0 • view
Just lying to their base and they’ll lap it up, like any other day ending in ‘y’
aug 20, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
They're also charging a 10% premium.... I hope every last Americans fucks themselves at this point. I can't even want to like them. DT's USA is no different from Russia in my eyes, disgusting, vile predators.
aug 20, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
So, export taxes? Who is paying? And to whom?
aug 20, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet another idea Trump copied from Cristina Fernandez Kirchner’s failed economic policies of Argentina.
aug 20, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Amerikanische Drecksäcke
aug 20, 2025, 7:43 am • 2 0 • view
1/ For the American junta of oligarchs and crypto-fascists, staying in power always boils down to three “principles”: ego, revenge, and enrichment. Ego: showing up everywhere, no matter the cost. Revenge: against Zelenskyy and the despised Europeans 🧵
aug 20, 2025, 8:56 am • 1 0 • view
2/ Enrichment: pocketing profits on weapons that are already owed to Ukraine, the country that gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.
aug 20, 2025, 8:56 am • 2 0 • view
It's a message for the MAGA crowd. Bessent knows there will have to be heavy US air coverage and the MAGA's will start to complain about what happened to "America First" and "protecting American taxpayers". The message is "it's all payed for and taken care of, so relax".
aug 20, 2025, 7:41 am • 1 0 • view
this is likely true, but it’s also that Trump is likely keeping that 10%
aug 20, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
Mammon 24/7
aug 20, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 0 • view
And the US profit from being the main military supplier for NATO members is exactly how they have been able to have such a high contribution Not because they contribute more $ to NATO concerns… Because they include the orders as if they were THEIR contribution
aug 20, 2025, 7:59 am • 0 0 • view
The US does not deserve allies.
aug 21, 2025, 8:23 am • 0 0 • view