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US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia

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EU countries should purchase fewer US weapons in the equivalent amount.

We're getting there, takes time for EU defense to spin up.

We can keep going. In March, a leading Danish defense official acknowledged his country’s F-35 purchases, but expressed regret over the decision. “[B]uying American weapons is a security risk that we cannot run,” Rasmus Jarlov, the chair of Denmark’s parliamentary defense committee wrote on social media, adding: “We must avoid American weapons if at all possible.”

https://www.defensemirror.com/news/40014

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-35-has-a-double-tr...

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/switzerland-weighs-cuts-...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/f-35-fig...

They should certainly up their own defense capabilities.

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