They’ve done a great job of completely destroying their defense export business. The barb “world’s biggest gas station” has never rung more true.

I suppose Melania has somewhat of a stake in European security given I imagine she still has family or friends back in Slovenia

Yeah was just about to say, Buddhists are partially the reason I deleted my Facebook accounts, which sounds odd to say, but it’s true.

“The world is a better place this morning without five young men who participated in one of the most horrific crimes against humanity.”

In the context of five IDF soldiers being killed. They’re claiming it’s support of terrorism. Might pull a muscle reaching that hard

And here I thought he couldn’t sink his legacy even deeper

Lock his dumbass in one of those chambers overnight

You’re a real one, Ismael

Don’t listen to what he says, watch what he does.

They take from the poor in Russia too though. The rich aren’t the ones being fed into the meat grinder in Ukraine.

I have a controller that plugs right into my opener with a magnetic sensor for if the door is open or not. Running Homebridge I can see it and open and close it from anywhere. Did it all the way from Thailand a while back just for shits and giggles. I gotta see if I can configure it to auto shut if it’s still open at night, have had a couple of whoopsies there.

I thought this is all based around a border dispute with Cambodia. What does China have to do with it?

The shelling was aimed at maintaining order

My god this makes my brain hurt from the dissonance. Pigs

That info isn’t public at this time. No motive either.

He’s saying anyone that claims to not trust the West nor China only distrusts China because they were propagandized by western news sources.

I don’t find that particularly compelling because I think assuming someone’s information diet and discarding it in order to invalidate their view is lazy. I’ll leave it at that so I don’t get put in timeout.

I think we need more of cheaper planes that are easily replaceable

Doesn’t Europe have a good number of airframes that fit that need? Rafales, Eurofighters, Gripens come to mind. F18’s too, but I recognize those aren’t domestic.

I look at these F35’s as a the current best solution for SEAD and air dominance roles in a potential conflict. Once that’s taken care of these other less capable platforms could play their part.

Unless Israel has giant pilots to go alongside their space lasers, none have been shot down, to my knowledge. I’ve seen footage of some of their unmanned drones being taken out, so you may be conflating the two?

Oh, and Europe is pretty much solely worried about Russia. They want systems that can suppress Russian air defenses. Iran operates (or at least, they used to) Russian air defense systems such as S-300 and Tor M1 that it appears the F35 has handily dealt with.

Sure, but those domestic manufacturers are going to need to work on developing actual stealth airframes if they want any business. That takes time that Europe isn’t currently comfortable with at the moment

Probably not, although Russia keeps jerking off to fan fiction about nuking a tidal wave across the island.

Considering how well the F35 did against Iran, I expect more F35 purchases from Europe going forward. I’m not aware of any European jets with comparable stealth and radar capabilities.

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