US President Donald Trump announced after the NATO summit in Brussels that he was ready to help the smaller states members of the alliance to buy US weapons.
He did it at a time when NATO allies are forced to spend more money on defense. The Reuters news agency reported. At the NATO summit, member countries made new commitments to increase defense spending, he said at a press conference in Trump. He added that the less wealthy members asked him at a meeting in Brussels that he would help them buy US weapons. Trump Marked "/>
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Asked about the great pressure on weak states, Trump said, "Today, there are many rich countries among us, but we also have some who are not so rich. And they asked me if they could buy the equipment and I could help them We would help them a little bit. "
" We will not fund them for them, but we will make sure that they can have the repayments and various other things so that they can buy – because the United States makes the most of the best military equipment in the world: the best plane, the best firearms, the best said Trump. personal victory when European allies have called on them to increase their defense spending, otherwise they will come to support Washington. The White House is pushing for the initiative [1945-19004] "Buy American Products" to help raise billions of dollars for the arms industry
The Initiative raises concerns in Europe. Some local officials, behind Trump's repeated calls to NATO members to increase defense spending, see an intention to increase US arms sales. Trump did not sell US arms directly and his efforts to persuade other NATO members to meet defense spending commitments – but praised the benefits and benefits of defense equipment made in the United States
"Everyone wants to buy our weaponry … So, we help some countries with advice and the purchase of the best equipment," added the head of the White House. Trump was named one of the top US military and military manufacturers of Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. Raytheon's Manufactures and General Dynamics, which build warships and other military equipment, could also benefit from arms sales in the United States, Reuters reported on Thursday
