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[–] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

"but because he doesn't understand anything."

I hate this take. He knows exactly what he's doing. Following Vlad's marching orders.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

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...

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

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.