Transferring Mirage 2000s is overdue and a good backstop. The F-16 pipeline has a kink, and I suspect professional pearl clutcher Jake Sullivan has something to do with that. If the U.S. should make the wrong choice in November’s Civil War Referendum, European response will be led by France, and Sweden will presumably once again be interested in providing Gripens as well.
Kink: Europe has come up with 85 F-16s, but we’re only training twenty pilots? And they are not permitted to strike inside Russian, so the targets that truly matter for the sake of interdiction will remain out of reach.