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Could the OP not think of any reason this would be a bad thing other than China? Not the slave labor? Not the support for autocracies? Not the crimes against humanity? Fucking yanks man.
That said, I have no particular opinion on the China thing, let Trump destroy Western military supremacy; I'll happily watch.
*Other than China being able to reverse-engineer our military tech? I mean, they probably have our building schematics through other means, but isn't that the main faux pas?
but isn't that the main faux pas?
No, that's the main faux pas if you're a US liberal with no care for human life that doesn't meet a property minimum or resides outside your borders, and not being that I don't give a shit about China getting access to US military tech. Arming Saudi Arabia is bad because Saudi Arabia is an autocratic imperialist slaver state.
I don't think anyone is arguing that governments are good, only that he should be in prison.
Can't the Pentagon just NOT do it? Just fucking defy him, or sell them shit fake ones
He’s committed treason daily for the last ten years. When are we going to do something about it?
this is treason
Add it to the pile...
remember KUSHNER got 2bn investment funds from the saudis? for giving nuclear secrets.
And also handing over information from US spies on dissidents, even if they were family that just opposed him, so Mohammed Bin Salman could trap them in a hotel and have them all tortured and murdered till there was enough alignment to him.
"The Intercept also reported that Kushner’s information on Saudi royals not loyal to MBS was contained in the President’s Daily Brief, a document presented to the President every morning. Kushner lost his access to the document earlier this year when new security clearance rules were instituted.
Eager to consolidate power and rein in the sprawling orbit of the Saudi royal family and aristocratic class, Prince bin Salman listened intently and a week later cracked down on corruption in the country by imprisoning more than 200 members of the country’s ruling class inside the confines of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, charging each with corruption"
Any other president would have been thrown in a cell, but for Donny and his cult it’s just normal business as usual.
Taking a bribe to let China reverse engineer our next generation fighter jet should be the kind of thing that has consequences. That’s going to cost a lot of lives down the road if things go sideways.
I think Saudi Arabia being, y'know, Saudi Arabia is bad enough without throwing in that "Chinese ally" thing lol.
Kind of ironic too because as evil as they are, SA are absolutely an American ally as well.
You’d figure a bunch of racists that spent the last twenty years crying about shariah law would a few very specific problems with Saudi Arabia.
monarchist nation build on slave labor, that murders political dissidents, queer people and indigenous groups? yea, that's probably bad or whatever idk, ~~i mean we did all that too and we're the good guys yknow~~
chinese ally???? now they've crossed a line!!!! 😡😡😡
You seem to have repeated yourself a little bit there. Minus the monarchy.
Sorry for calling again but could you please paint "DEATH TO AMERICA" on the jets? We got those new hangars and don't want to make them all smelly right away.
Aren’t the F-35s software and updates DRM’d to hell anyway? Thought I read somewhere that Lockheed Martin could remotely kill any F-35 at anytime. They’re the ultimate John Deer.
No hardware or software that you have unfettered access to is un-crackable forever. If China has the will to crack it, they almost certainly have the means. It is only a matter of manhours.
If someone has physical access to a device its practically impossible to hide things from a dedicated attacker, especially a nation state actor.
You can read ram for instance straight from the traces rather than from the ram module.
If Lockheed Martin has kill codes for their F35s then China can reverse engineer those kill codes
They can’t kill it any time. The software pbones home to verify licences periodically, and that can be used to brick the device. Of course, Israel is allowed to run their own software because reasons.
I don't think that's the case. Its just too big an oversight.
Still complex gear needs a supply chain, so getting on the bad side of the USA still grounds your air wing.
Go get him
Wait, the insurrectionist would commit treason?
Wasn't there something about the saudies being complicit in 911 or something?
Not really. Bin-Laden is a wealthy and well-connected Saudi family, but no link between the state and 911 has been made public
Treason is legal when you're Trump.
everything is legal when you're dumpy. EVERYTHING. Including rape.
"L'Etat, c'est moi", but in the voice of a farting ketchup bottle
Is it rape if "they let you do it"?
Yes the Trump is made of Trump
The trumpberries taste like trumpberries!
I keep magnifying, but it's still Trump. It's Trumps all the way down.
Treason comes to Trump as easily as lying does, so it shouldn't be surprising.
This is entirely expected.
Time was we would kill traitors. If this is treason, then we should kill him. One person is closer than anyone else to him right now. They could stop all of this.
Time was you would venerate traitors and call them “founding fathers”. Different strokes.
Nobody in US political leadership wants to set the precedent of facing legal consequences for their actions while in power.
Yet another nothing burger. Release the Esptien files.
At some point, the Epstein files become the distraction. So much horrible shit has happened in this presidency already, with real consequences for innocent people.
So brushing every bit of that aside to just meme "Epstein files" over and over seems like a GREAT service to Trump.
Is he in those files? Oh, definitely. Will he be i n the released version? Probably not. So, what will you do? Keep screaming for the RealTM files all through this presidency, letting him off the hook for everything else because "muh files"?
At some point, the Epstein files become the distraction
Great point. But this is a nothing burger because it isn't corruption it is the export version of the F-35 specifically for shitty alleys this has been in the works since Biden. Israel already has the F-35i and is partners with China, SA is weak bitches that do what they are told. Also China already has the blueprints from espionage.
Yeah. Who cares? We saved gazaaaaaaa....!
/s you dumbfucks
Could we get sources?
https://apnews.com/article/f35-fighter-jet-saudis-trump-deal-299b47534e121923851e18fd02a57799
Appears there are a number of sources discussing it. It's strange being that Russia is currently selling them air defense systems as well.
And what will be done? Everyone in a position to do something is his toady or doing the same thing. This is the end game of individualism and capitalism.