Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-25

[Jacob]

Do you not remember Churchill's stateman-like poll put to the British people on the 17th May 1940, "BEF - Should They Stay Or Should They Go?"

 

[viper37]

There's still a debate about the reality of an F-35 kill switch.
However, what's real, is that US traditional allies are now thinking twice about buying F-35 and other military hardware from the US after Trump's backstabbing of Ukraine:
https://eutoday.net/germany-concerned-over-f-35-kill-switch/


I feel trapped.  Nothing is safe.  Even ethical portfolios aren't safe from the onslaught.  World diversification does not really help.  At least, I sold all my crypto just before Trump was sworn in and cashed my gains.  I see the despair of people who lost huge amounts of money, some who ask for the suicide hotline because they believed in the Republican hype. So sad

[grumbler]

The rumors of an F-35 "kill switch" still seem to be just rumors, with no one with any knowledge actually saying that such a thing could even exist, but the issue is moot.  Just owning F-35s makes a country vulnerable not just to Trump, but to any similar moron elected by US halfwits in the next 20 or 30 years. Everyone needs to cancel their F-35 orders not because the Trump administration is unreliable, but because the American electorate is unreliable.

[Zanza]

Germany mainly wants to buy the F-35 to deliver American nuclear weapons as part of NATO. It is not clear to me whether that use case is actually still relevant.

[Jacob]

Moscow hit by drone attack.