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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix3.panix.com!dannyb From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: military weapons, was: [OT] Bell Canada - service vs. abuse Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 02:08:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: <100olbo$cuq$1@reader1.panix.com> References: <100nj4b$3hf47$1@dont-email.me> <100o227$3l9hv$1@dont-email.me> <100o8k2$3k88m$8@dont-email.me> <hafv2k9ulolvevqb05476lr8dhr9f1kp7i@4ax.com> <100okul$3oppn$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 02:08:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix3.panix.com:166.84.1.3"; logging-data="13274"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Bytes: 1844 Lines: 26 In <100okul$3oppn$1@dont-email.me> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> writes: [snip] >> I think you fail to see the obvious answer. If your country were truly >> to move away from the F-35 then there's no reason to keep them. Just >> sell them to another country that is using the fighters. I'm sure >> there will be many willing buyers. >Weapons sales tend to come with a "you can't sell this stuff to anyone else" >clause in the contract. We only want those things going to certain countries. Certainly true, but if Lower Slobovia decides to transfer some of their US sourced tanks to Freedonia, what can the US do (within reason...) to stop them? Yes, the US can refuse to sell any more tanks, and can end replacement parts/repairs, but that's not going to physically stop the handover today... -- _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]