• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    This is completely unacceptable. These Jets were given by European NATO countries to defend Europe.
    This is a decidedly hostile act by USA against Europe!

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      And it shows that European countries need to stop buying American weapons.

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        The French learned their lesson here and its paying off!

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        Which is such a bangup job. The F-35 program was predicted on allies being able to buy it. Which they were in droves.

        It’s weird, but Trump might do irreversible damage to the US MIC. Not out of any principled stance, but because he doesn’t understand anything.

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          There’s a lot of outstanding orders for F35s from EU countries. No idea if it is possible to weasel out of them, and if the sunk cost wouldn’t be too high to make it politically viable…

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          It’s weird, but Trump might do irreversible damage to the US MIC.

          If that hasn’t happened already, the customers must be extremely dense.
          AFAIK EU is absolutely planning independence from USA, meaning our weapons cannot be dependent on USA either.

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          Yeah, I still don’t know if the whole Russian spy thing is serious or not. He’s definitely doing everything to deconstruct the US empire, but it was already on its way down regardless anyway, and it can all basically be explained by incompetence or greed too.