Donald Trump has made no public comments about the Ukrainian F-16 fleet, but his expected intent to reduce support for Kyiv and get his country "out" of the war poses a question: what will become of Ukraine's U.S.-made jets if Washington withdraws?
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They don’t have a choice. Legally they HAVE to. If they ignore that then they will be cut off from US weapons systems, which they ALL use. If trump says no, it’s NO.
It’s serious.When nations buy jets they dont buy just the aircraft but an entire system of logistics and maintenance. For all practical purposes you are dependent on the sellers goodwill if you want to keep flying.
I believe that a number of NATO countries already have transfer authorities for F-16s to Ukraine signed by the Biden Admin. The question for Trump is, what is he going to do when Putin hurls missiles at Ukrainian civilian targets? It's going to be hard to look away. Very hard.
Sybiha says new U.S. administration officials will visit Ukraine in January
"We have already established practical contacts with the new administration. We anticipate key visits in January, which will convey the concept of 'peace through strength' to representatives of the new administration."
Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium are NATO countries that supplied F-16's to Ukraine. I'm sure that these countries will provide technical support to Ukraine given the criminal Trumps love for the parasite Putin and hatred for Ukraine.
His military industry (and related sectors) would crush.
Not understanding that the money for Ukraine are almoat completely going to US industries is blind stupidity
If Trump makes the use of F16's difficult for Ukraine, his arms industry will suffer, as countries will become more reluctant to buy US material out of fear the same will happen to them.
It will also make this country look weak on top of that… and I think people in Trump’s own inner circle are well aware of both of these things and will push him to support Ukraine.
It already happened....
I would be surprised if new contracts are signed for F-35's.
With the 🇺🇲 attitude they could well be close to useless when needed.
You can't build deterrence and defense on weapons where support is in question.
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Trump will want to withdraw support to all opponents of Putin so it wont matter if they give supplies to Ukraine or not
and this will seriously harm the USA war industry
Notify 45 this is Not
HIS COUNTRY
IT'S OURS! 🇺🇲🇺🇲
well it help Ukrainians pilots to have a updated skill set,
But the real good choice is 1st the Saab or the Mirage 2000.
"We have already established practical contacts with the new administration. We anticipate key visits in January, which will convey the concept of 'peace through strength' to representatives of the new administration."
Not understanding that the money for Ukraine are almoat completely going to US industries is blind stupidity
I would be surprised if new contracts are signed for F-35's.
With the 🇺🇲 attitude they could well be close to useless when needed.
You can't build deterrence and defense on weapons where support is in question.