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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
  • And it feels good doing it. It is terribly funny to see European countries being so lame.

    Hit me again, hit me hard.

    by hulitu
  • The least terrible option under the circumstances. Any single European country going in either the pivot-to-armed-independence or pivot-to-alliance-with-China route without the rest of Europe buying in to the move is doomed to failure, even before you consider that a couple EU members are very in favour of the status quo.
    by OgsyedIE