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That's great news. Airbus has shown they can build airplanes given enough budget, it can definitely translate to military planes as well. If not, French or Swedish industries can profit from it.
It’s almost like going around spouting “America First” everywhere got other countries thinking, “What about us first?” Maybe those dirty “globalists” had a point.
Not just that but there is evidence that the US intentionally feature limits planes that they sell to foreign governments, to the point that they can disable them remotely.
How any government can trust US made planes is beyond me.
I'm not sure a remote disable is even needed, if they can just withhold spare parts.
FYI the word “globalist” doesn’t mean “person who thinks globally”, it is just a 1-1 replacement for “the Jews”.
The whole world should stop buying stuff from usa, we should let tRump marinate in his own juices.
The pedophile has been already festering in his bile for so long he has turned sickly orange.
Father Nurgle loves him for that.
Why isn't that happening?You don't have to be nice to a bully?!? It's probably money but can someone eli5 this to me? Are we so dependent on everything American? Or is this a long game, wait this storm out?
Europe doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to arm Ukraine. It has the know-how but it just doesn't produce enough arms. Why? Because they thought they don't need it. Europe thought that in a case of any conflict US will help it so they just need to bare minimum of everything. Now that they realized USA is not a reliable partner (about 8 years too late if you ask me) they are trying to expand their capacity but it's really difficult and will take years. You have to build the factories, hire and train workers, find new sources of raw materials, figure out how to transport it... On top of that USA realizes what is happening so they are putting pressure on everyone to keep buying American weapons. The trade deal requires Europe to buy billions worth of arms from USA so now they have to invest money in local production while spending it in USA at the same time.
How did we get here? Shortsighted and corrupt leaders, especially in Germany.
Ask the average Joe to stop buying coke, you will have your answer.
Like, iphones, Coke, McDonalds and Facebook, WhatsApp and on and on ?
At least some good news, back home in Switzerland our government is cowering before Trump, reassuring him that we will buy the F-35 even though they just put a flat 39% tariff on us...they even flew to Washington to improve our offer, whatever that means, fucking cowards.
Hopefully Canada follows suit.
Great decision. It will be interesting to see what they will get now. From what I've read the only options were F-35 or Eurofighters and they said they will not buy Eurofighters because they already have those and don't want to rely on a single platform that much.
This is only an issue for the Navy that has single light aircraft carrier. It currently launches Harriers but those will be decommissioned by UK soon and Spain will be last country still using them. Recently they announced plans to build two more light aircraft carriers and one full scale one. So they can try using Harriers a bit longer, wait for the full scale aircraft carrier or buy some Eurofighters just for the navy. Even if the navy will lose the ability to deploy fighter jets I don't think it will be a big issue for Spain. They are not planning any middle east invasions anytime soon.
Spain is going to wait for FCAS which it is part of but I don't know if the navy can wait that long
Perhaps a certain winged lion would be of interest, mi amigo?
What's that
E: Ah the Saab one
