(March 8, 2024 at 4:04 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(March 8, 2024 at 1:44 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: .. as if we are obligated to sells its highest tech to countries which may well act in ways deleterious to American interests ...
No one is obligated to not be dumb, or short sighted, or to not be blind to the long term consequence of imbuing other people with a resolve to to get even for one’s own heedless exercise of short term leverage.
If i sell you a knife, is asking you to not use it against my family fair? Or maybe if I license you the right to build my design, in that contract I may insert stipulations regarding how it's used?
The problem of selling the F-35 to a country possessing a potential adversary's SAM system (which adversary also has advisors on the ground reporting back) should be clear.
Maybe you might explain how that approach is "dumb"? And why do you think that American concern is "heedless"?
