Related:<p><a href="http://reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-weapons-locally-2025-04-02/" rel="nofollow">http://reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-b...</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/BTRUS" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/BTRUS</a>)<p>> U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.<p>..<p>> According to two of the sources, Rubio said any exclusion of U.S. companies from European tenders would be seen negatively by Washington, which those two sources interpreted as a reference to the proposed EU rules.<p>I suppose it will be done as always: allow tenders from EU/US/etc. This time though, instead of always buying at least a certain amount from the US regardless of merit and cost (because what you were really buying was <i>US protection</i>), <i>actually</i> buy on merit and cost. The <i>protection</i> was a scam.