- cross-posted to:
- BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
“The one thing that we have to watch is to make sure we don’t see more countries in a similar boat as where we are with China. We’re watching the EU,” Boeing CEO and President Kelly Ortberg said.
Well, if you would actually focus on building planes that are safe to fly, maybe regulators in the EU would have a harder time objecting to your flying death-traps 🤦
Boeing is also a big military contractor. Speculatively, she might be referring to that part of the business primarily.
Well the EU is also trying to move away from US military suppliers since the US has become an unreliable partner. Imagine you buy US planes then Trump wakes up on the wrong side of the pillow one day and forbids export of spare parts for those planes. How you’re just fucked. Better to make your own or go for suppliers from another EU country.
Unfortunately EU being militarily autonomous is gonna take years if not decades ( but at least now we are on the right track )
Well, for that their only solution is to use their Central America regime change guidebook closer to home, and hope everyone forgets the US’s propensity to elect imperialist assholes.
That train has left the station.
They can pound sand
Indeed
I was just thinking about seeing this move in my How To Find A Scapegoat workbook.