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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by louthy on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:06AM (#43309641)
What exactly do you think are so special about American made products? The only reason that America’s allies have bought them in the past is because of Pax Americana. That’s about to end if not has ended already.

BAE Systems along with other European arms/aerospace manufacturers are perfectly capable of making competing products.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by ExoticPearTree on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:20AM (#43309819)
> What exactly do you think are so special about American made products?

They are more battle-tested than any other. America has been involved in a war or another pretty much continuously since the end of WWW2.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by louthy on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:28AM (#43309898)
Alongside its allies, mostly. Thanks JD.

Not that they’re going to be allies much longer.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by ExoticPearTree on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:03PM (#43312481)
Which allies fought alongside in every conflict the US participated in? With the exception of the blunders in Iraq and Aghanistan where everybody jumped on the “lets conquer faraway countries” bandwagon.

In Syria the US bombs things at their will, same in Somalia. In all Latin America conflicts the US went at it alone.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by louthy on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:17PM (#43312634)
Honestly, go and look it up yourself, you’re not engaging in this thread constructively. You’re simply parroting MAGA talking points. I didn’t say “every”, I said “mostly”.

Maybe pay attention to Greece, Korea, Libya, Kosovo, Serbia, Yemen, Syria (1982), Iran, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, WW1, WW2

The fact that even as we bicker on this forum British and American forces are in Yemen pretty much says everything.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by zidad on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:37AM (#43310026)
> America has been involved in a war or another pretty much continuously since the end of WWW2.

* correction: since 1776

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by FredPret on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:46PM (#43311661)
Very large amounts of continuous investment and battlefield testing since 1941.

There's no reason this can't be replicated by other rich nations but it won't be cheap or quick.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by ExoticPearTree on Sunday March 09, 2025 @06:51PM (#43314752)
In order to replicate this, you need to invade countries and conquer them to test out your equipment, soldiers discipline and whatnot.

I don't see EU countries starting to invade other countries around the globe to test out weapons systems and battlefield tactics. The US on the other hand, kind of did this continuously since WWW2 (to mention recent history).

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