'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money'

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Sounds like my recent trip to Oklahoma
by mrobot
US government is stealing money payed by Switzerland for F-35s. Basically Switzerland bought 5 patriot batteries but the USA couldn't deliver so they cancelled payments. Then the USA took payment for the F-35s and applied that as patriot battery payments then came back and said "sorry our f-35 deal has to be renegotiated and you have to pay 2x the original deal". Switzerland lost about 1.3 billion francs - 1.5B$ - so far.
And yet Switzerland is still going through with the deal but just buying half as many planes.
by comrade1234