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Years ago the US declared the need to consolidate control over its proxies (and official US government papers have reiterated this necessity under both the Biden and Trump administrations) in order to successfully confront and defeat a rising China.

And that is what it has been and is doing - both in the Americas, across the Atlantic in Europe, and everywhere else - this theater of a US-European or US-Canadian "fallout" is meant to manage public and political perception as it does so.

References:

US Congress - Implementing the National Defense Industrial Strategy: Issues for Congress (Nov. 2024):
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IN/PDF/IN12459/IN12459.1.pdf
US DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (As Delivered) (Feb. 12, 2025):
https://www.war.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/
US White House - National Security Strategy (Nov. 2025):
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
BBC - Japan to send Patriot missiles to US which may aid Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67798740
NYT - How a German Manufacturer Is Forging Stronger Ties With the U.S. (Jul. 2025):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/business/rheinmetall-germany-fighter-jets.html
Japan Times - Lockheed strikes deal with Pentagon to triple output of Patriot missiles (Jan. 7, 2026):
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/07/companies/lockheed-triple-patriot-missiles/
Stars And Stripes - South Korean shipbuilder secures deal to maintain US Navy dry cargo vessel (Dec. 2025):
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-12-16/navy-ship-maintenance-repair-korea-20108164.html
Reuters - Biden's new Arctic strategy foresees competition with Russia, China (2022):
https://www.reuters.com/world/bidens-new-arctic-strategy-foresees-competition-with-russia-china-2022-10-07/


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