🧾 🇵🇹🇨🇦🇨🇭

Portugal, Canada, and Switzerland are reconsidering their purchases of F-35’s. Because of Trump. Not his politics, but his mercurial attitude. They have concerns about supply, parts, even pricing. As well as what spanners Trump might decide to just throw in to the works.

Please note this affects all the defense contractors who make the F-35. (Before law school I worked as a paralegal on a products liability case involving a Fairchild A-10. It was a new platform then, which tells you how long ago this was. The case involved an incident with the ejector seat. We were representing McDonnell Douglas. They made the ejector seat. No one company makes the entire plane.) That’s a lot of people staring down a lot of contract terminations.

emptywheel has the receipts.