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In an astounding public exchange between world leaders in the White House, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance gave Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky a dressing-down that demonstrated American resolve to end business-as-usual for the Ukraine money pit and bring the war with Russia to an end.
Things got off to an awkward start from the very moment Zelensky arrived dressed in his usual performative, combat-ready green sweatshirt, cargo pants and boots, as if he might have to rush back to the front lines against Russia at any moment. As the Ukrainian leader exited his motorcade, Trump shook his hand and wise-cracked to the press, “He’s all dressed up today.”
Once inside the White House room packed with reporters and cameras, there were 40 minutes of reasonable, calm discussion before Zelensky made what former US ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker called a “terrible, unforced error” by demanding security assurances before agreeing to a minerals deal with the U.S. He also argued that previous American Presidents including Trump 1.0 did nothing to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression against his country, and therefore the kind of diplomacy with Putin that Vance was urging was pointless.
This prompted an immediate and sharp rebuke from Vance, who upbraided him for “litigating” the war in front of the cameras: “Do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?”
The conversation went off a cliff from there, as Zelensky went on to employ the blackmail tactic of claiming that the U.S. has the privilege of “nice oceans” between us and Russia, but that if we don’t help him defeat Putin now, Americans will “feel it in the future.”
Trump then sternly interjected, “Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel, because you’re in no position to dictate that.”
An increasingly angry Zelensky tried to talk over Trump, who continued, “You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War Three. And what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country – this country – that’s backed you far more than a lot of people said they should have.”
“Have you said ‘Thank you’ once?” Vance broke in, and Zelensky insisted, “A lot of times,” but Vance reminded him that he, Zelensky, “campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America, and the president who’s trying to save your country.”
When Zelensky tried to argue, Trump shut him down. “No, no, you’ve done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. You’re not winning.” Trump noted that his “stupid” predecessor, Joe Biden, “gave you $350 billion” and military equipment. “If you didn’t have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks,” Trump declared.
“Accept that there are disagreements, and let’s go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the American media when you’re wrong. We know that you’re wrong,” Vance concluded.
The meeting ended with no minerals deal signed and with Zelensky promptly escorted from the White House. Afterward, Trump issued a statement on the social media platform Truth Social:
We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.
Republicans responded with enthusiastic approval. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), for example, tweeted, “America First in action. Thank you, @realDonaldTrump and @JDVance for prioritizing our people first and for promoting peace!”
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) said, “This is what it looks like to stand up for America.”
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) chimed in: “Thank you, Mr. President and Vice President. The days of the USA getting pushed around are clearly over.”
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) wrote, “Finally we have a President who will speak the TRUTH and stand up against Washington’s endless wars. American taxpayers have been funding this war, it’s time to stop the killing and stop risking World War 3!”
By contrast, Ukrainian flag-waving Democrat leaders and media talking heads predictably expressed their apoplectic outrage by falling back on their go-to talking point that Trump is a stooge of Putin.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) labelled the President and Vice President cowards and puppets.
“Squad” radical Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) condemned Trump’s performance as “absolutely disgraceful and embarrassing” and claimed he was “doing Russia’s bidding on the world stage.”
“Trump and Vance are doing Putin’s dirty work,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) echoed.
Honey trap enthusiast Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) kissed up to Zelensky, stating, “The guy has balls. He went into the Oval Office and stood up to Russia’s best negotiators.”
Lifelong Communist Sen. Bernie Sanders had the nerve to post on X, “Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.”
“Fuck JD Vance. Fuck Trump. Acting like fucking bullies in front of the cameras,” Never-Trumper former congressman and radio host Joe Walsh spewed profanely and impotently.
Hysterical Left-wing protestations notwithstanding, the American President and Vice President today demonstrated, for the entire world to see, an America-First strength that has not been in evidence all through the Biden and Obama presidencies or even through Trump’s hamstrung first term. It puts not only Zelensky, but Putin and the entire world on notice that there are a new sheriff and deputy sheriff in town.
This is what we voted for.
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Open your mind before your mouth’ mean
This room resembles a circus without order, rather than a conference and negotiation room.
Where there is no order, one should always expect such indecent behavior.
How can a journalist who has nothing to do with negotiations allow himself to go into the details of the speeches of two presidents and make such indecent statements about the dress of a president in front of the whole world?
We would also ask Brian Glenn how come you enter this room with a sleepy look and a face like a pumpkin?
The meaning of the story is that every word has a place and every point has a place. Until it is spoken, speech is like a wild animal that is in your hands and you use it whenever and wherever you want, but once you let it go, it harms others and even yourself. Slava Ukraine.
Aw, did Brian Glenn make the Oompa Loompa of the Ukraine look bad? Tough shit. Zelenskyy shouldn’t have bit the hand that’s feeding him. He stupidly thought he was dealing with Alzheimer Joe’s handlers and could play to the cameras. America isn’t the EU and you don’t fuck with Trump unless you want your ass handed to you.
I’ve often thought how some of these “diplomatic” meetings should be ended in similar ways.
Most of them should be ended in similar ways, in my opinion. That uppity Munchkin, Zelenskyy, should’ve known President Trump was going to have him hit the Yellow Brick road for acting up.
As a former Ukrainian….now AMERICAN, all I can say is screw Zelensky! Lousy bastard should have stuck to playing piano with his cock! Yes, he actually did that!
I guess he used to be more talented than he is now……….
Looks like a set. Some girl boss Ukrainian ambassador or something started crying on que for the cameras. Now the democrats have a reason other than supporting waste, fraud and abuse.
She may have been upset because Zelenskyy messed up so badly.
Zelensky objected to Trump wanting him to drop his pants and ask Putin to buttfuck him again.
As any good national leader should.
Trump is completely on the wrong side in this.
President Trump is trying to save the Ukranian lives Zelenskyy is trying to sacrifice, dumbass. That war ends with President Trump restraining Vlad and Zelenskyy cutting his losses and taking what he can get or it ends with Putin taking the Ukraine over Zelenskyy’s corpse and God only knows how many Ukrainian corpses.
Fucking with President Trump and Vice President Vance was a colossally stupid mistake.
My guess is you voted for the kammy, didn’t you.
Not only that but I bet that Larrikin also thinks that Kammy is smart too.
And I bet he thinks that turkey necked man face is attractive. Yuck.
Since you seem to know a thing or two about butt f**king, who did you drop your pants for and let butt f**k you?
And if Trump is on the wrong side. then man up and put your ass where your mouth is and fly over to Ukraine and personally go kick some Russian ass. Otherwise, STFU!
Best comment on the thread, Rob!
Only ones taking it up the rear are us taxpayers, and we’re tired of Zelensky treating the USA as his personal ATM.
The prick, not only left President Trump twisting in the wind after the phone call in 2019, he campaigned for Kamala in Penn. (Betrayals like that led to a sham impeachment.)
What you & Zelensky fail to understand is when once the U.S. & Ukraine are yoked in joint commerce, Putin can not once again invade without directly poking Uncle Sam.
Great Britain paid back it’s entire WWII loan the USA.
Ukraine has how many billions? The days of Sleepy Joe giving-it-away-now are over.
The Democrats default response before, now and in the future is pure BSTDS. With Zelensky basically taking himself off the diplomatic field. Putin will be dealing directly with Trump. What’s the Democrats idea to end the war? . Don’t bother looking, they have none. They’re just a one trick pony on a broken record.
The Dirtbagocrat Minitrue Media are spinning Zelenskyy’s ingratitude and rudeness with their usual TDS opposition to peace and prosperity. They demand that President Trump and Vice President Vance (who was awesome at the meeting) apologize to Zellenskyy.
It’s been a month and a week and the deranged D-Bags just don’t realize that America hates them and their day is done. They act as if Puppet Joe were still posing as President, the same way Zelenskyy does.
Keep up the “opposition” to reality, retards. You can’t dig yourselves out of your hole.
Zelensky reminded me of Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) in THE KING OF COMEDY, especially when Pupkin visits Jerry Lewis’s mansion.
Who is Robert De Niro? I’ve heard of him. Is he important?
Trump and Vance our the best ever !May God protect them Amen
That’s because they’re real men; alpha males. Not the teeny weenie squirrel nuts beta male sissy boys like Biden and Obama. Those two obnoxious twits would soil themselves and faint if you got in their face and raised your voice and stared them down.
Vance is a steely eyed stalwart, isn’t he? And everybody with half a brain knows not to mess with President Trump. He isn’t a private citizen who can be persecuted by Deep State seditionists any more.
And yes, may God protect President Trump and Vice president Vance. There were two left-wing assassination attempts on Trump before he even took office and the D-Bags are murderous scum on the best of days. Vance could step into the Presidency without losing stride, so he’s a target too.
Zelensky is being used to get at Trump. The Ukrainian people are collateral damage. He will be dumped when no longer useful.
Speaking of that, I wonder: of that $350 billion we gave Ukraine, how much of that did Zelensky pocket for himself and does he have a Swiss bank account? Just asking….! Crooks, dictators, tyrants and corrupt politicians in that part of the world all seem to have a Swiss bank account.
Excellent question!
Zelensky’s answer is “some is unaccounted for”.
(Perhaps a Swiss rounding error.)
I think Little Man once said maybe half the Biden Bucks sent his way had disappeared. Between him and the oligarchs you can bet plenty is unaccounted for. No doubt Joe Bribe ’em And his handlers got a kickback, too.
Possibly some in our part too…
By “our part,” you mean Joe Bribe ’em and his handlers, of course.
Zelensky managed to sucker the Democrats into sending him unlimited funds and they still couldn’t win. But in just one meeting with Trump he got sent packing.
Hey Z-punk, it’s over little man. You will be lucky to survive until next week.
Trump handled you like a wet paper towel.
Eastern Euro–trash smack down! Leftist go nuts about Oval Office ‘reality show’. What’s not to like about the any of it?
And what the Hell are those pullover sweaters about? Somebody get New Orleans mayor’s ‘image consultant’ and tell Euro-trash how to dress for success.
The Euro rats and the democrats in this country don’t have the balls or moxie to say or do what Trump said and did to Zelensky. Instead, they would’ve proclaimed him a great leader and all but kiss his ass.
Now the dems and the Euro rats are pissed at Trump because he did not fawn over that little ungracious Zelensky slug and instead, punked him on live national TV and then tossed his dumb ass out of the white house. Trump did what none of them have the balls to do.
Yeah, and it was hilarious when Brian Glenn asked the Oompa Loompa of the Ukraine “do you OWN a suit?” He was just on RAV saying what a stupid mistake Zelenskyy made by being a rude ingrate.
Vlad sure wouldn’t show him and the Ukraine the concern President Trump does, much less the mercy, if Trump were to step aside.
It is unfortunate, but this is another example that there are two Americas and they cannot co-exist. It is sad cause I grew up when there was some bit of unity, even though there have always existed the Federalist vs Anti-federalist (of which clan I belong). It was like the Charlie Daniels song said “we’ll do a little fight’n amongst ourselves, but you outsiders best leave us alone.”
It is now time to draw up the divorce papers. There is absolutely nothing that ties us together any longer.
Don’t dance around the issue. Be bold and say it with courage and conviction: It’s time for a second American revolution.
The left isn’t going to change nor are they going to go away. Not willingly. Moreover, trying to vote them out of office and/or wresting the reigns of government from them and/or removing them from academia is a proven exercise in futility.
The left has become fearless and overconfident that they will ultimately prevail. They need to be forcefully disabused of that notion. There’s only one way that can be achieved.
Revolutions when won, are often won for those not starting them. The American Revolution produced a government of limited powers. That may not ever happen again.
The next American revolution won’t be about producing a government of limited powers. It will be about preventing the left from destroying the foundational principles our nation is built upon.
The left is determined to do away with the 1st, 2nd, 9th and 10th amendments and serious curtail the rest of the amendments to the US Constitution to empower themselves while legislating the opposition out of existence.
You don’t vote people like that out. You either fight them or capitulate to them and beg for mercy. Capitulation is not in the American DNA.
Then it sounds like this will be our FIRST civil war.
Rob A – I give you an A PLUS for your comment!!
The left has not only ruled the roost, but infested the nests with their vermin! It’s no wonder why the left exploded when the Musketeers began exposing the corruption and waste!
No wonder they ran to the nearest corrupt leftist hack in black to buy time for destruction of evidence! I do believe that is why all those ee’s were put on LEAVE – get them OUT so they couldn’t do MORE damage! This must have taken quite an effort to PLAN and then EXECUTE!
We are witnessing GENIUSES in ACTION!
The Ukraine Klown got some VERY bad advice – he will pay for it and probably VERY personally!
All the leftists and their “Save Democrazy” don’t seem to mind that Zelensky halted UKRAINE’S Elections so HE could remain in power! So typical of the HYPOCRITE Party!
That’s EXACTLY why the D-Bags delayed Kash Patel’s confirmation for as long as they could. The FBI was busy destroying as much evidence of its corruption and treason as possible in the meantime. That is a known and proved fact.
We’ll see if Patel and Bongino have the FBI hard drives examined. I sure hope so and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be doing that RIGHT NOW.
Ukraine was the lynch pin for the NWO/Deep State globohomos. Russian Putin boogeyman, Trump impeachment/Russian collusi0n, biolabs, endless social experimentation and endless money laundering and war profiteering. They used the same template all over Europe to maintain the status quo and their grip on power. It’s all evaporating before their very eyes, they just don’t know it yet.
Exactly, Gordon. They used their playbook on us just like they did on other nations,
but then came Trump 2.0.
Patriots cheered President Trump’s America First stand. “By contrast,” Tapson informs us, ” Ukrainian flag-waving Democrat leaders and media talking heads predictably expressed their apoplectic outrage by falling back on their go-to talking point that Trump is a stooge of Putin.” Trump/Russia collusion, again? One thing is for sure, that Oval Office encounter with the petulant Zelensky was no “quid pro quo on a Ukraine phone call.” Impeachment, anybody?
Yes, President Trump isn’t owned by Ukranian oligarchs the way Alzheimer Joe, the former puppet President is. Of course, Joke Bidumb is also owned by Russian oligarchs so he needs to stay out of sight and mind.
I see we have a troll here who loves fake presidents owned by Slavic oligarchs.
Yeh, Joe Walsh, one-term congressional loser, king of the Poodle-publicans, along with his fellow beyond-RINOs weepy crybaby Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney and creaky old dour-dad Dick, and the so-called ‘Lincoln Project’ (they’re no Lincolns!’), all poodle lapdogs of the Democrat Party, always mouthing off every chance they get. With fake ‘Republicans’ like these available to the likes of CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the lamestream media, who even needs Democrats to rattle(snake) in? At least they no longer have Joyless Reid on MSNBC to kissy up to.
As usual, President Trump is playing 4D chess while everyone around is playing checkers. Trump doesn’t “lose it” for just shits and giggles….he’s up to something.. I see that the FBI finally returned all the files they stole from Mar A Lago. I wonder, did they also return the first lady’s underwear they were sniffing when no one was looking?
Social media (can’t remember which one) yesterday said Trump & Vance “literally ate Zelensky’s lunch,” meaning a luncheon had been planned and cancelled after Zelensky’s intransigence. So the White House staffers had a lovely noon meal.
I love that thought. Hope it is true.
Maybe so! Zelenskyy and his entourage were unceremoniously escorted off the property, which is a polite way of saying he got the boot. They were supposed to have lunch together and talk privately.
Zelensky is in the UK now. After Trump kicked him out of the white house, perhaps the Brits and the rest of the Euro-rat oligarchs will kiss his booboo and hand him a few Euros to assuage his hurt feelings.
Yeah, those oily bureaucrats still want to influence the foolish Zelenskyy to favor their idiotic policies. All of their advice just strengthens Putin’s position and makes him less merciful. The Eurorats are going to get the Ukrainians President Trump is trying to save killed if they have their way.
Zelensky is a madman dictator who doesn’t realize his time and his era is up and over and out – The swamp is being drained, his payola is being cut off – Zelensky wants all the money and fuck his own citizens! Zelensky is trying to keep the war going for the globalists on the money laundering take of USA taxpayers hard earned money for the globalists who put him and Joe Biden in power. Zelensky’s gravy train is destroying his own nation and people.
The dude is on the take and it needs to be exposed and every last person connected in this racketeering with human lives and properties homes, schools and lives!
Trump Rejects Zelensky | LIVE Angry Trump Tells Zelensky To Leave White House After Heated Meeting
The mere fact the he is the president of Ukraine says more about the Ukrainian people than it does about him.
The same scenario applies to us here in the US. We incessantly complain about corrupticrats (i.e., democrats, RINOs and neocons) but yet they keep getting reelected. The unmitigated truth is, they’re not the problem. “We the people” are the problem.
The Ukrainian people are getting what they voted for just we the American people are getting (this time around) what we voted for. Thank God for Donald J. Trump!
If it wasn’t for the Despot Democrats installing this pint-sized Nazi, Eastern Europe wouldn’t be in this mess right now and the farms, fields, towns and cities on both sides would not be littered with the future generation
of both Nations!
The leftist grifters in congress are upset their main grift has been shut off. No more kickbacks from the pissant dictator with our tax money.
G-d bless President Trump.
For the first time in my life, I feel like we have a President representing the whole nation.
America First instead of Bleep America.
It really makes me wonder what the nation would be like –
and the world because our money and power has been used to Bleep everyone else (except cartels, commies, China, and Muslim terrorists)
It’s amazing how many here have imbibed the Russian propaganda and straight out lies.
And are very, very ignorant of both world affairs and history, especially Putin’s.
Still stuck on the Russia Russia Russia hoax. Hey A-wipe, it’s 2025, not 2017.
But please continue, Loser. The same traitors who colluded in Trump’s first impeachment and Russia hoax: Zelenskyy, Sullivan, Blinken, Rice, Nuland, and Vindman were the architects of Zelensky’s blowing up the peace talks. They are acting as foreign agents.
https://gellerreport.com/2025/03/obamas-team-including-victoria-nuland-susan-rice-alexander-vindman-told-zelensky-to-reject-trump-deal-in-violation-of-logan-act.html/
It’s amazing how many anti-American CRETINS pretend Zelinskyy and the Ukraine can be saved if America were to waste never ending hundreds of billions on a lost cause. Only President Trump can deter Putin from taking all of the Ukraine instead of just keeping the Crimean Peninsula and Dombas region.
The gravy train of free funds is over, comrade.
Two shmaltsovniks yelling: “make ruSSia great again!!!”
This is what you voted for.
Actually, we voted for Trump, the President who’s going to save the Ukraine from Zelenskyy’s cupidity and stupidity.
Actually, it’s not Trump’s responsibility to save Ukraine from itself or Zelensky. The onus is on the Ukrainian people to save themselves from Zelensky.
You cannot help people who will not help themselves and instead, depend on others to do it for them. Moreover, there’s a body of history of people like that who eventually end up resenting you for helping them
Example? Look at most European countries general attitudes towards America. Suffice it to say, they don’t like us very much. Never mind that it was American blood and treasure that twice saved them from their worst instincts of their enduring cultural tribalism and various the isms it has given rise to (e.g., Marxism, communism, socialism, rigid moralism, etc..)
There’s a simple word for people like that: ingrates. I prefer to call them ungrateful bastards. Zelensky and the rest of the Euro oligarchs proves my point.
You’re right of course but Trump is a good man so he’s going to use his power and influence to save lives. There are plenty of innocent Ukrainians who don’t need to ddie or banish themselves permanently the way so many others already have. The decent people deserve to live and don’t deserve their corrupt government just like you and me don’t deserve ours. Hell, I live in CA and I don’t need to tell you that only card carrying Dirtbagocrats deserve the “woke” version of utter corruption and incompetence which rule this place.
What’s that leftists rag Time think of their Person of the Year Zelensky? They did the same with Hitler back in 1938
The last I knew, “Time” wasn’t even a Dirtbagocrat magazine anymore, just a Dirtbagocrat website.
Larrikin:
You would be more at home and within your element if you posted your comments elsewhere. FPM is not the place for you.
If you feel the need to piss in someone’s punch bowl, do it at CNN or MSNBC’s website. They need the traffic from self righteous dimwits like you.
Arrogant, disrespectful, entitled Euro-trash!. If a guy has hundreds of millions stashed around the world,, why would he dress in cheap pullover sweats and tacky internet combat boots?
Insufferable clown and a good match for the amoral white trash known as the British Royals.
Oops – my comment is too long, so I’m dividing it into 2 parts.
Part 1
My suggestion is for people to stop focusing in on Zelensky and educate themselves about the history of Ukraine. I suggest watching the following documentaries in the following order: Ukraine The Everlasting Present, Ukraine on Fire and Revealing Ukraine. This region has been a hotbed of ultra right wing nationalism clashing with the ethnic Russians. Since the founding of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s artificial borders were extended to include the industrialized Donbas region, which was inhabited by a majority of ethnic Russians.
Ukraine during the Soviet era had its economy in sync with Russia, with the collapse of the Soviet Union came the rise of irrevocable differences between Ukrainians and Russians. The attempt to create an independent state of Ukraine failed miserably, from introducing a worthless currency to ingrained corruption. It didn’t matter if Ukraine had a pro-Western or pro-Russian leadership, the results were the same. Constant rounds of elections, corruption and eventually the organized rise of the once dormant ultra right nationalist movement.
Part 2
Oh and guess who caused this toxic mix to explode? Why none other than the CIA and the U.S. state department that orchestrated the 2014 coup! This led to the ultra right nationalists taking over the government and the U.S. recognize them as the legitimate Ukrainian government. Then the Ukraine government passed laws akin to 1930’s German laws deciding who could and could not be considered Ukrainian. Surprise – surprise, these laws were anti-Russia, anti-Russian Eastern Orthodox Church and celebrated the roots of Ukrainian ultra right nationalism. The Ukrainian government gave official recognition to notorious Ukrainian fascist, Stepan Bandera. As a predictable result, the ethnic Russian population living in Crimea and the Donbas region had enough and sought to split from Ukraine, thus sparking the civil war.
So forget about Zelensky, the only permanent solution to peace in Ukraine is separate the 2 people just like Czechoslovakia, which was an artificial construct that forced Czechs and Slovaks to live under the same roof. It’s the same with Ukraine, stop sending weapons, stop with the unrealistic talk of Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders and just stick with the reality of the situation. That’s Ukraine is an artificial construct, stop forcing reconciliation between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians, just divide the 2 peoples already! Let Ukrainians do their thing and the ethnic Russians population decide their own path. All the conflict in this region has been due to forcing these 2 diverse groups of people to live together under one roof and guess what – it doesn’t work!
Mark T. YES this IS what we voted for!!!
I am weary of the diplomatic niceties; the apologies. Spending, Giving Away the money. Trump & JD have b@lls.
EU? You figure out this Ukraine/Russia issue. America is staying Home. We have our own problems. I do not want to include your figged up continent which has been fighting amongst themselves since we learned how to record history.
Here comes headwinds to Trump and his administration from the EU that will knock him and his world politics down.
The Union will invest 500 billion euros over the next decade to strengthen its defense capabilities.
Charles Woodburn, the chief executive of BAE, Europe’s largest defense company, said it could easily expand its production capacity to meet rising demand if governments gave it long-term guarantees to increase military spending.
A guarantee also given by the heads of four other European defense giants: Germany’s Rheinmetall, Italy’s Leonardo, France’s Tillis Group and Sweden’s Saab.