Biden was too much of a limpdick to do anything about it, but I do find it morbidly amusing that it took the US outright switching sides to get Europe to do something concrete.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When you've been relying on a free source of defense for decades, it's attractive to divert investment into something more directly beneficial to the citizenry. Better late than never, at least.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This doesn't sound like it's really a new proposal:

Though variants of the proposal have been discussed without making progress since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a fresh version of the plan has gained renewed impetus this week after Zelenskyy’s acrimonious meeting with US president Donald Trump on Friday.

So it's already been discussed. I don't know how much weight to ascribe to "renewed impetus". It doesn't sound like there's yet a commitment.

That being said, it certainly beats there not being a "renewed impetus". It could potentially develop into something real.

But at this stage, I don't think that it's yet over that hump.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That does certainly seem to lend credence to the position of "Europe was happy to let the US foot the bill'