US President Donald Trump's team has ordered the termination of vital support for F-16 fighter jet jamming equipment that Ukraine has. What is important to understand is that this could deprive the Ukrainian Air Force of its most important air countermeasures.
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!
And it shows that European countries need to stop buying American weapons.
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.
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.
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…
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.
The French learned their lesson here and its paying off!
One in a chain of many.