Trump is talking about leaving NATO, will that result in his impeachment?

@whowasthatmaskedman Oh. I think they would find plenty of export markets, and with the US isolated militarily, unless strict controls are placed on them by their own government, I'm sure they would have no scruples about the buyers.

@ArishMell Probably so in smaller quantities. But the whole equipment philosophy of NATO forces is the integrated fighting model that has a common platform for all forces, which, wouldnt you know it, just happens to be American.😷

@whowasthatmaskedman True, but the question would be, is this still NATO of all the other members, or would some new alliance form; presumably based largely on European, Australian and Canadian military and industrial standards?

After all, the scientific and engineering, technical standards and accreditations, of course already exist, devised and agreed by the ISO, and based largely on British and other European practice.*

A "New NATO" may well be a serious blow to the US defence manufacturers, who are not above taking over foreign manufacturers to take the IP and profits at the very least. If so, then I think they would be even less fussy about selling internationally, without caring for the consequences.

The big question of course, is not technical or military quality although there is a plethora of variants of essentially similar equipment. They are as good as the US ones. Instead it is of money and the willingness to pay for it all.


* (The SI units' metric base is a French invention, and the management-control system ISO9001 was modelled partly on the UK's "DEF-STANnumber" product-QC. So rejected automatically by the USA. Revising and agreeing them as ISO standards was the only way the USA would accept them - and then grudgingly.)