France, Italy reportedly opt out of US-NATO arms deal for Ukraine Kyiv Independent, 16 July 2025
Your being dishonest, no surprise, by not stating the reason.
France and Italy are not "backing away" from supporting Ukraine, but are going to buy their weapons for Ukraine from European producers, in order to support European industries.
The French government will not join the initiative because of its emphasis on piecing together Europe's defense industrial base,
https://www.newsweek.com/france-italy-donald-trump-nato-weapons-ukraine-2100129
Which makes the U.S. "support" for Ukraine extraneous and irrelevant. See Post #44.
“Thales-Raytheon Systems Company LLC (ThalesRaytheonSystems or TRS) is an aerospace and defence company co-headquartered in Massy, France and Fullerton, California, United States.[1] It is operated as a 50:50 joint venture between Raytheon Technologies (formerly Raytheon Company) and Thales Group.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThalesRaytheonSystems
Raytheon:
Ownership
As of December 2014, according to filed reports, the top ten institutional shareholders of Raytheon are Wellington Management Company, Vanguard Group, State Street Corporation, Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, BlackRock Advisors, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Deutsche Bank and Macquarie Group.[47]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Company
Different country same Military Industrial Complex and profiteers.
What a limp accusation. I merely posted sources as hotlink URLs. Read them any way you like. I read "opt out" as "opt out."
If you don't buy a product or accept an assertion, your reason may well be different than another's, and yet the decision is the decision.
Macron says he wants to bolster French armament production. Fine. Italy calls "to explore alternative ways to contribute." Also fine. Kyiv Independent reports concerns over "fiscal limitations" for some. Fine too.
State any reason you'd like. That upshot is that the US being paid for weapons from France, Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republik ( I have worked in all of them ) is not proceeding in the moment.
That leaves the UK and Germany and some smaller neighbors to pay for US weapons under the "sell" plan, in the moment. This being an evolving theme, one awaits more events, statements and actions.
But no dishonesty.
Your comment -- "74" -- states "European countries are going to BUY US weapons and ship them to Ukraine.." Some are. Some aren't, in this moment. How long it will take to piece "together Europe's defense industrial base" is a matter of time. Days? Weeks? Months? Years? For today and per Z-media, some are opting out -- for whatever reasons they so state. That's it.