(January 26, 2023 at 2:51 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote:(January 26, 2023 at 8:42 am)Belacqua Wrote: Money isn't the problem. They have more money than they know what to do with, and billions every year that they can't account for in the audits.
The problem is they choose to spend the money on fantastically expensive airplanes that don't work.
In fact now that everyone knows the F-35 will never be useful they have started to talk about replacing it with an actual usable machine. The F-35 has, after all, accomplished its mission, which was to funnel incredible amounts of money from the taxpayer to well-connected people who were already rich. That's about the only thing the Pentagon does well.
That’s exactly what they told my President for 3 more month to convince him to buy Russian S-300 systems (which are not even being used and are sitting in a military warehouse) in return for being kicked out of the F-35 program (of which we were producing some key elements).
I hadn't heard about this, but it doesn't surprise me. The whole weapons exchange thing is done for politics or for graft, not effective defense.
It's a way for the US to exert control over its obedient vassal states, and to enrich US manufacturers. Decisions are made based on political connections rather than what actually works.
For example, it looks as though these super-duper Abrams tanks which are going to fly in to rescue our man Zelensky are difficult to use because they require fuel that's different from other machines. This increases logistical and maintenance difficulties. And the reason they are built this way is because Rumsfeld used the Abrams program to enrich the Chrysler Corporation, which was struggling at the time.
https://spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/magic...-disasters
Anyway, CNN is saying the tanks won't arrive for a year. CNN lies constantly, of course, but only in pro-American ways, so we'll see. Lots of pledges of assistance like this are made for the headlines, and then when attention has shifted to the next thing the pledges are quietly forgotten. So let's see how many of these super-duper tanks really arrive.
