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Moron In Chief Destroys the US Arms Industry

Why no nation will now want to purchase any advanced weapons system from the USA

Allan Milne Lees
4 min readMar 12, 2025
A visual metaphor of the results of Trump’s genius. Image credit: F-16.net

As the US “news” media is now in full supine groveling mode in order to avoid the wrath of the petulant infant in the White House, it’s unlikely that most US citizens are aware of the orange vermin’s latest “smart & stable genius” ploy in his never-ending campaign to ensure Russian victory over Ukraine. Obeying an order from Trump, the US military shut off the radar capabilities of the European-donated F-16s that have been supplied so far to Ukraine. At the same time, the guidance systems for HIMARS and Patriot batteries in Ukraine were also disabled.

Think about this for a moment: European nations bought those aircraft and then, with far-too-late US agreement under the dithering spineless Biden administration, transferred a small number to Ukraine. Despite the fact these F-16s weren’t supplied by the USA and were the property of European nations, the USA was able and willing to turn off their vital electronics.

While US citizens may remain blithely ignorant of such things, everyone else in the world has taken notice.

Russia’s arms export industry has collapsed because the pathetically inadequate performance of Russian weapons systems was revealed for all to…

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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