Post #2405181

@RejoinEU@mastodon.online The big problem with this (which I agree with in principle) is that the rest of NATO have spent their (reduced) defence money on a completely unconnected range of weaponry, except where they have brought US weapons and are dependant on the US for maintenance or supplies ! Including in the case of the UK the Nuclear Weapons we are trying to suggest are on a par with the completely independent French one. Trump has even openly talked about the ability to turn off aspects of those weapons! For example it was only a previous presidential decision by Clinton that allowed civilians to access "un-degraded" positional data. Virtually irreplaceable for targetting etc the US controls this. Hopefully the European version Galileo can be used by these US built systems (though i note the Wikipedia page suggests it's still being upgraded this year).