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mikkupikkuyesterday at 5:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

NATO members aren't particularly large customers for American weapons. Poland is the largest, but is dwarfed by Japan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Ukraine is receiving a bunch of weapons, but that math isn't so straight forward (they're getting a ton of old stock) and they don't have much choice anyway.


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epolanskiyesterday at 5:53 PM

Europeans have spent 80B $ in 2024 and 68 in 2025 on US weapons.

That's not peanuts.

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youngtaffyesterday at 6:27 PM

Apart from Patriot, Atacms and a few other modern systems, Ukraine is basically saving the US the cost of destroying old arms