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It’s time Europe reduced its defense reliance on the US, Czech president says (www.politico.eu)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then stop cowarding and buy the best équipements and not what the us lobbies you into buying ! Rafale > any US fighter

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't disagree with you per se (though Eurofighter and Gripen are good too), but I have to point out that the Czech Republic has been using Saab Gripens for a while now, not US-made fighter jets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yup and it's great ! But i'm referencing to a particular case were they did two set of tests cause the rafale was better in every category than it's us counterpart, and in the second test they just made it so the critera were like : "does the name begins by F ?"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

with what industry lol, they just pissed away whatever pittance of an industry europe had left.

i guess they could rebuild that industry, but that'd require them to stop being neoliberals, since those will never ever build anything, they'll just privatize and financialize until the system chokes on its own vomit.