Defense News, an analysis published yesterday, shows the scheme by which US defense contractors will be enriching themselves off the arrangements that the US is making with the Eastern European members of NATO. The US plan to backfill the inventories of the militaries of Eastern Europe that supply their old Soviet equipment to Ukraine with US equipment “could shape the continent’s arsenal for years to come,” Defense News reports.
“When it comes to new equipment, the Eastern European partners will primarily turn to the United States,” said Matthias Wachter, chief defense analyst at the German industry association BDI. “Germany and France have unfortunately disqualified themselves in the eyes of many eastern Europeans by way of their reluctant stance on military support for Ukraine.”
