French President Emmanuel Macron recently made a trip to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the "face-to-face" meeting at the time was quite awkward because the two sides were "face to face" on a table with a length of 13 meters. French President Emmanuel Macron is to mediate tensions between Russia and Ukraine, but macron is actually going to Moscow as the "microphone" of US President Joe Biden, because Macron is trying to persuade Russian President Putin to give in. 202202167/Global Defense Watch/Ali, after several rounds of negotiations between the United States and Russia, the United States rejected Russia's request to ban NATO's eastward expansion, and the United States not only trampled on Russia's red line, but also increased its troops to Eastern Europe.
Just when French President Macron was "saddle up" for the United States, he once again suffered a face punch, because the United States has no bottom line, after France and Indonesia signed a contract for the purchase of 6 Rafale fighters, the United States announced that it approved the sale of 36 F-15EX fighter jets to Indonesia, this time the amount of arms sales as high as 13.9 billion US dollars. Although Indonesia announced that it would purchase 42 Rafale fighters, the first batch only purchased 6 fighters, so the United States seized the opportunity to directly announce the sale of 36 more advanced F-15EX fighters.
The F-15EX is an improved model based on the F-15E fighter, the ultimate model of the American Boeing F-15 series fighter, and the U.S. Air Force has also purchased the F-15EX fighter in large quantities. Before purchasing F-15EX fighters, the U.S. Air Force had approved the purchase of 1763 F-35A Lightning II fighters, which showed that the F-15EX fighter jet has strong capabilities, otherwise the U.S. Air Force would not have to purchase fourth-generation fighters while equipping fifth-generation fighters. Also because of the ability of the F-15EX fighter, the United States wants to grab the French order by approving the F-15EX fighter, and the United States is not the first time to grab the French order, in 2021, it has robbed the Australian submarine order from France.
U.S. President Joe Biden is once again punching French President Emmanuel Macron, who has already snatched an estimated order of more than $90 billion from France, and is now doing it again. In fact, the United States approved the sale of F-15EX fighter jets to Indonesia is very step-by-step, because Indonesia originally purchased Russian Su-35 fighter jets, for which the United States raised a strong protest, and issued a threat to Indonesia, if Indonesia purchases Russian Su-35 fighter jets, the United States will impose sanctions on Indonesia. In the new crown virus epidemic, Indonesia's economy has suffered a huge impact, the United States is taking the opportunity to "knock on the bamboo lever", directly with sanctions to issue a threat, and finally Indonesia canceled the purchase of Su-35 fighter jets.
After Indonesia announced the cancellation of the purchase of Su-35 fighter jets, the United States showed a vicious face, and it turned out that the United States forced Indonesia to abandon the purchase of Russian Su-35 fighter jets out of its own interests. For the United States, allies are used to sell, France is twice fell into the same river, after the submarine order was "cut off", France's fighter order is also halfway met with Cheng bite gold, and now French President Macron will be quite embarrassed, when acting as the "microphone" of US President Biden, but was stabbed by the United States, if Indonesia purchases American fighter jets, France's loss is not small. In fact, the United States announced that it approved the sale of F-15EX fighter jets on the same day that France and Indonesia signed a contract for the purchase of six Rafale fighters, so it seems that the United States is "targeted".