Italy Ditches Boeing and Buys Airbus in swing toward European Defence

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-ditches-boeing-and-buys-airbus-the-decision-says-more-than-it-seems.html

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Photonic@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 105d (6 replies)

I’m glad Meloni & consorts aren’t as much Trump loving idiots as I was expecting. I guess they are just opportunistic and are now seeing the decline of Trump’s popularity

tb_@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 105d (5 replies)

The primary reason for that swing appears to have been trump's comments against the pope.

Flower@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 104d

And they Trump wanted to throw Ukraine under the bus while Meloni keeps supporting Ukraine.

And Italy got tariffed with all the rest. Loyalty didn't get rewarded much.

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 104d

That and the Iran war

undu@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 105d (2 replies)

The timeline exposed in the article refutes this, it had been happening much earlier.

tb_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 104d (1 reply)

For the AirBus deal, yes. But I didn't read the comment I was responding to as being specifically about that deal.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 104d

Nothing can ever be ascribed to a single thing entirely. I think both are true and contributed as independent factors.