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The Portuguese Air Force is no longer expected to acquire the 5th generation F-35 fighter from Lockheed Martin, all due to the review of the US position towards NATO.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You claimed that Portugal not having been involved in major wars for almost a century (which was a false claim) was a reason for the country to not need jets, an argument which literally links the need for jets to being involved in major wars.

Now you've moved the goalposts and it's only "some" major wars that justify having jets, not "other" major wars, and which are the "jet requiring wars and which aren't" being entirelly up to you to define.

(FYI, Portugal used fighter jets in its Colonial Wars)

In summary, you've literally talked yourself into a "it's so because i say it's so argumentative corner".

The feeling that your discourse in all your posts here leaves is that you do not want Portugal to have jets, for reasons that have nothing at all to do with the geostrategical and defense needs and objectives of Portugal and is in fact related to the imperialistic objectives of certain, completelly different and non-friendly, countries being better served by a less well armed Europe, only you can't just outright come out and say it because that would severely damage the "opinion making" ability of your comments, hence the half-arsed circular argumentation balanced on top of nothing more than misinformation and unfundamented opinion.

Hey, maybe I'm wrong, so I'll leave it to others in this thread to make up their own minds about it.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

My intention was to say that Portugal has not faced military threats. The fact that it was involved in unjust colonial wars is, in fact, a reason they shouldn't be allowed to have jets.

And no, I don't want them to waste money on military boondoggles that could be used to help actual people.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's hilarious that after the profound ignorance you've repeatedly displayed about Portugal whilst not being Portuguese and still claiming that you know better than the Portuguese, you still expect that anybody out there, no matter how stupid, will believe that having a genuine concern for the Portuguese (not wanting them to waste money) is in any way form or shape what drives your repeated attempts at convincing others that Portugal shouldn't have fighter jets.

Thanks for the entertainment!

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago

My intention was to point out that Portugal does not face any threats and your argument seems to be "well they murdered all those people in the colonial wars, what if they need to murder indigenous resistance fighters again huh?!"

You just love Portugal's colonial history I guess and want to relive it.