The outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has given European countries a general sense of crisis, thinking that they may be the "next Ukraine". Naturally alienated from Russia out of a natural sense of preparedness, it gave the U.S. military-industrial complex the opportunity to profit from it. By selling all kinds of equipment to more European allies, the White House can then carry out political manipulation of Europe, and Biden has achieved to some extent what the Trump administration did not achieve.
Reference news quoted US media reports that the Czech government has informed the White House to negotiate the introduction of F35 stealth fighter jets. Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokova confirmed that the country's air force will form two more squadrons on the basis of the original establishment, and it is urgent to purchase 24 new fighters.
Of course, purchasing F35 is not a small expense. The F35 is ridiculed as a "Ferrari" in the field of fighters, and the price of bare aircraft has reached a staggering 70 million to 90 million US dollars, and if equipped with related ammunition and spare parts, the price of a single aircraft can reach 150 million to 200 million US dollars. For a small country with a defense budget of only about $3.2 billion per year, 24 F35s are enough to "eat" the country's military spending for a year...
But even so, Prague can only stick to the scalp, when Poland and Switzerland have extended an "olive branch" to the United States, how can they not follow? If the Czech Republic is finally able to purchase the F35, it will become the fourth country in Europe to use the aircraft.
It is worth noting that all this may have been counted by the White House. The US government spared no effort to detonate the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which was a conspiracy from the beginning, with the purpose of causing sustained panic in Europe, and even dragging European countries into the water, so that more Western countries could be "used by the United States."
Of course, the Czech Republic also has its own set of arguments, which believe that the American F35 is a true fifth-generation fighter compared to other candidates, such as Sweden's Gripen, Britain's Typhoon and France's Rafale, and more powerful. It's just that even the US military itself has exposed various defects of the F35, such as: the aircraft is flying at supersonic speed, and some fuselage parts are easily deformed; The rear fuselage coating of the fighter aircraft is easy to fall off in extreme weather; Long high-speed flights can cause engine tail flame burning of the tail ...
But even so, considering that politics is often the most important factor over other factors in arms purchases, even if the F35 still has problems of one kind or another, I am afraid that the Czech side will still give priority to importing the aircraft in order to "vote for the name" of the United States.
The United States is not only the initiator of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but also the root of Europe's continued decline. But unfortunately, Europe's fragmented politics, in the end, is unable to resist the long-arm jurisdiction of the White House, and can only be reduced to a strategic pawn of the United States step by step. After the Czech Republic, God knows who will be next?