PieFed.caUS F-16s lose out as Thai air force seals US$600 million deal for Swedish Gripen jets
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The Quuuuuillthis is good. punish our MIC for doing a fascism best you can while you can. shit's about to get brutal and you don't want to fund your own demise
From what I remember reading some months back, the new gripen is a fantastic plane that gets you the most bang for your buck, so I'm not surprised.
Are we still winning?
The rich are. Even with headlines like these, military industrial stocks are skyrocketing
War and global tensions have been very profitable, and signs only point to investors believing more war is coming, which is the reason for huge spikes in valuation
(For reference General Dynamics is the primary producer of the F-16 and Saab is the producer of the Gripen)
Has the supreme queen la queefa of Fascist U.S. released the promised Epstein files yet?
Probably not since he’s a lying pathetic raping sack of shit whose name is riddled within the files.
Good on countries telling America to collectively go fuck themselves!
Hopefully Swiss does too. They're currently going over the books again.
Yessss the plan is coming together for swedish world domination. Eat this denmark /s
Finally it'll no longer be American aircraft being used to bomb Cambodia. Are we happy about this?
For those not in the loop, Thailand has had an extremely unstable government for decades now. There's been a change in leadership because the previous Thai PM (who was basically the Thai version of Ivanka Trump) was being too obsequious to Hun Sen (who technically isn't leader of Cambodia, but still runs the country). There's a ridiculous amount of corruption in the governments of both Thailand and Cambodia and some of that corruption transcends national borders.
The Thai military wants to flex it's muscles, possibly in an effort to to build up to yet another military coup.
There is a dispute over ownership of a temple. The ICJ ruled that the temple belonged to Cambodia in the 1960s and Thailand left the ICJ because of this. The territory in dispute isn't really worth much, it's mostly an excuse for Thailand to bully Cambodia when it's politically expedient. Cambodia is an incredibly poor country and is not a match for the Thai military.
But someday it'll be European made weapons being used in this mess instead of US weapons, is that a good thing?
Silver linings man, silver linings.
Tmone way or another, those jets are coming, be it from the US or elsewhere, might as well be Sweden. At least this is had for the US which, again, is not much more than silver linings, but it's something
So countries that supply weapons to other countries are in no way complicit in how those weapons are used?
Not saying that at all, that's why I said "silver linings"