ZOMG! Trump is Killing the U.S. Defense Industry

[Axtremus]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/04/trump-zelensky-vance-ukraine-defense-arms/

How Trump Is Killing the U.S. Defense Industry
It turns out that abandoning allies and tossing out security guarantees is bad for business.

[taiwan_girl]

Yup, when people complain that we are "giving" Ukraine billions of dollars, it is not so simple.

It is not as if there are pallets of money being flown to Ukraine.

It is money going to a bullet maker in Pennsylvania and then teh bullets go to Ukraine.

etc.

[Mik]

The government needs to be less a driver of American commerce.

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in ZOMG! Trump is Killing the U.S. Defense Industry:

The government needs to be less a driver of American commerce.

Without the US government, I think many defense companies in the US would go out of business

https://insight.factset.com/how-much-do-government-contracts-contribute-to-defense-suppliers-revenue-share

[Mik]

Perhaps, but there's a dependency there that needs to be less.

[Jolly]

Eisenhower was right

[xenon]

Sounds great if we can actually reduce the defense budget.

Are there any “strategic industry” concerns on this one?

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in ZOMG! Trump is Killing the U.S. Defense Industry:

The government needs to be less a driver of American commerce.

Seems like defense would be the exception. You want them selling to ISIS and the cartels?