The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out — online.ua
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If there does not exist a kill-switch there are still so many things they can do. Here is an interesting read on the subject https://www.byteseu.com/812441/
Yeah but there's a Gulf of difference between Afghanistan and Ukraine. There's other countries that manufacture spare parts and have maintenance experience willing to help. Ukraine also has a technological sector of it's own. Afghanistan was completely dependent on the US.
Don't get me wrong, we shouldn't be here. Trump is a fucking idiot asshole. But Ukraine shouldn't be panicking yet.
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Which is such a bangup job. The F-35 program was
predictedpredicated 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.
"but because he doesn't understand anything."
I hate this take. He knows exactly what he's doing. Following Vlad's marching orders.
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The sad thing is, this would be a completely hysterical thing to say like 10 years ago but now it's a serious consideration.
Electing this dickhead once is a blip but doing it twice in a row indicates that the american voters actually want this, which is deeply troubling for Europeans (and the rest of the world).
Bush junior's first term was a blip. His second one should have been enough to look for other partners.
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Which is such a bangup job. The F-35 program was
predictedpredicated 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.
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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That doesn’t make any sense, at least to me, as you’re in the EU, so any tariffs placed on the EU are placed on Poland.
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I hope everybody comes to their senses and stop buying US military equipment. We have good stuff and people smart enough to fill the gaps with self developed products
Russia will need to rearm after the war. I bet the US sells them arms.
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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!One in a chain of many.
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Yeah, even if we elected rational center left leadership for the next few decades, it would take 30 years to be trusted again and we'll still never recover our previous position of responsibility.
And we aint trending that direction anyways
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At this point, every single European country should stop buying US made weapons and cancel all orders. It is a dam shame the Ukrainians could not receive the SAAB J-39 Gripen and more Dassault Mirage fighters instead of the now useless F-16. When will the Mirage enter service? Send the F-16 pilots to France for training.
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Poland is also buying... But I am not sure if our government is smart enough to reconsider. They want to be nice to the Orang Dictator hoping he will spare them... Ignoring that lord Musk already started attacking them on twiXter.
Tusk would be smart to cancel the F-35 order and start buying European weapons. I believe the Polish Ministry of Defense was bought by the US defense contractors. When Russia does invade Poland, not IF, Poland will be in a shitload of trouble trying to get spare parts to keep the US shit rolling and flying. At least FB Radom is not compromised, their Wz. 96 and VIS 100 are well built.
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