Pres. Biden Proposing Allies Produce More Weapons For A Loss of American Control AND A Balance of Payments Disaster!!!

[johnkarls]

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I apologize for not including this ACTION PROPOSAL in the Suggested Discussion Outline posted July 10 – BUT HOW WAS I TO ANTICIPATE SUCH A HARE-BRAINED IDEA FROM PRES. BIDEN ON JULY 11???

Here is the official White House transcript of President Biden’s July 11 NATO Press Conference –

RL-White House Transcript of President Biden's July 11 NATO Press Conference.docx

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On pp. 12-13 highlighted in bold-red, he said –

“The other thing that we talked a lot about is that — and I raised it, and there wa- — I — I didn’t hear any — I can’t swear that everyone agreed, because not everybody got to talk about it. But we haven’t — we need a new industrial policy in the West. For example, we talked about how both the EU, as well as NATO, has to be able to begin to build their own munition capacity, has to be able to generate their own capacity to provide for weapons and the ability to — it came as a surprise to some of us how we had fallen behind in the West in terms of the ability to construct new materiel, new weaponry, and new — new — everything from — from vehicles to weapon systems.

“And so, one of the things that came out of this was — we’re going to be meeting again with a number of my colleagues — my European colleagues — is: What do we do to increase the capacity of the West, and particularly in Europe, and Japan to be able to generate kind of ability to produce their own weapons systems — not just for themselves but to be able to generate that?

“It’s the same — this is — that’s what Russia is trying to figure out. The- — they went to China, and they didn’t get the weapons, but then they went to North Korea.

“But we’re going to be in a position where the West is going to become the industrial base for it to be able to buil- — the — the ability to have all the defensive weapons that we need. That was a discussion as well.”

**********End of Biden NATO Press Conference Quotation**********

Does he think before he speaks???

(1) What does this do to our control over the foreign policy of allies since we by-and-large produce all their weapons and therefore have control over how they are used???

(2) Indeed, he has trumpeted in Michigan about how he has control over Israel’s war against Gaza by refusing, inter alia, to supply them with 2,000-pound bombs!!!

(3) Why does he think the world would be a safer place if many European nations, Japan, etc., were producing their own weapons??? Won’t they each feel emboldened to conduct their own foreign policies which could lead to the old bane of many “European Wars” re which American Presidents traditionally shunned involvement from 1776 until World War I???

(4) And are they going to produce America’s most-advanced weapons??? Probably without even royalties for our technology!!!

(5) What about America’s balance-of-payments problems if we forego our primary export – weapons??? We are already on record 10/23/2023 as imploring President Biden against “Exporting American Jobs And Sale of Our Crown Jewels To Pay For Consumer-Goods Imports" – please see viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2420&sid=5e095e400 ... 4783cd5f73.

AND TO THINK THAT BIDEN COOKED UP THIS IDEA AND RAISED IT HIMSELF!!!

DO YOU THINK VICTOR DAVIS HANSON’S “THE END OF EVERYTHING” WOULD COMPEL YOU TO PROTEST BIDEN’S NEW IDEA???