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tokaitoday at 5:27 PM4 repliesview on HN

I don't understand why US weapons manufactures are not lobbying harder. They are losing the European market just as the largest rearmament since ww2 happens.

Maybe they are and its just a lost cause with the US administration.


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helsinkiandrewtoday at 5:53 PM

> I don't understand why US weapons manufactures are not lobbying harder

It doesn’t really matter if your product is better or cheaper, if the customer thinks that service and spare parts might possibly be withdrawn in the future for political (or whatever) reasons they won’t buy your product.

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SecretDreamstoday at 5:34 PM

They're very scared of their boss and the CEOs are short sighted by virtue of their compensation packages.

spamizbadtoday at 6:16 PM

You can’t lobby the Trump or “America First” crowd to not be themselves.

newtonianrulestoday at 6:18 PM

You have to understand that the smartest people in the US didn’t vote for this administration and are just as horrified as everyone else with how inept and pathetic this administration is. Unfortunately we’re a minority, the senate’s design (Wyoming has the same number of senators as California even though a small city in CA may have more people than the whole state) and the US is so ridiculously gerrymandered.

Sorry everybody but we just have to wait this stupidity out.

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