“Last March, Germany announced that it would acquire thirty-five Lockheed F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to replace its older Tornado fighter bombers.”
That was last march, before it became obvious that Russia was totally mired down in what may be an endless, treasury-draining war in Ukraine that looks very much now like it may result in the end of Putin’s reign.
Now Germany says ‘Oh yes, we still want those aircraft BUT it may be 3 more years before we buy them’ and I can’t help but wonder if this isn’t so much an economical move as it is, or could be, a response to what they think is going to happen in Russia.
After all, who else but the Russians would they need stealth jets for? They’re part of NATO now, they’re not going to be waging war against Western Europe anymore, or Japan, or anyone else except perhaps China.
Let’s remember that virtually all the governments that mattered followed China’s lead in locking down their people and wrecking their economies in the process, this was a mutual global effort to crush global prosperity and the holdouts are their enemy.
Russia is a hold out. The USA was the other one and stealing the 2020 election took care of that. What’s left are Russia, India and Brazil. Yes, there’s others but their economies and militaries are so small that they don’t matter. They’ll all be absorbed when the time comes to do so and right now the main focus is on Russia.
So who knows, I may be wrong here, but it looks to me like the Germans know something about the future of Russia that they’re not talking about.