Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Ryuu96 said:

shavenferret said:

Trump says US to increase military sales to India, eventually provide F-35 jets

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/markets/commodities/trump-says-india-agreed-purchase-more-us-oil-gas-2025-02-13/

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Jesus, trump is selling our prized fighter to a BRICS nation...

To add to this, a reminder that India is an ally of Russia, even more so than Türkiye, and yet Türkiye was blocked from purchasing F-35s over security concerns due to them also acquiring Russia's S-400 AD systems. Guess who has S-400 AD systems? *drumroll* India and worse yet, India isn't even in NATO so America's concerns applied to Türkiye (a NATO member) but not India (a Russian ally).

Double Standards? U.S. Treats S-400 Users Türkiye and India Very Differently on F-35 Sales

If I'm being honest, I wouldn't sell the F-35 to either of them, I don't trust Türkiye or India but the double standards are astonishing and quite frightening at how incompetent the Trump administration is, the F-35's secrets are about to be handed on a silver platter to Russia, Lmao. They'll probably test it alongside S-400 and send Russia the data

This isn't incompetence.  It's underhanded tactics disguised as the appearance of being a pro-american business deal.  

When this shows up at congress, they will have a shitfit over this.