Rasmus Jarlov is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing (the Parliament of Denmark) for the Conservative People's Party. From 2018 to 2019 he was Minister of Business Affairs.
His warning to our allies:
He's absolutely right. The US is a mess and cannot be trusted.
@MNSpy He's not wrong. Alliances with the USA have become a risk to Europe and other peace-loving nations. For decades we've presented ourselves as trusted friends and, for the most part, we were. That has all now changed. One election changed everything.
Even if in four years we elect a pro-freedom, pro-Europe, pro-decency candidate who turns back the clock, all those allies that we betrayed won't simply forgive and forget. The American electorate did it once; we could do it again. We could again select a government that would betray and damage our friends.
It's worth noting, the above post is from a political conservative. That says volumes.
I understand that Canada, among other countries, stopped some of their own weapons projects to buy American. I don't doubt that they can resume production.
@JustTooOdd @MNSpy Trust is hard to gain, needs work to maintain, and once lost is almost impossible to re-gain. We kind of all know this from our private lives.
@MNSpy Get rid of them. The F-35 may be a significant investment, but it's one that #Denmark cannot afford to continue with. If #Putin decides he's had it with #NATO, his puppet #Trump will cut all all support, and the #F35 will become a very expensive paperweight. Better to get an inventory of Gripens, Rafales, or even Eurofighters. Get America's fingers out of European and NATO defense, as much as possible.
@TheNovemberMan @MNSpy
Gripen still relies, to the best of my understanding, on an American jet engine.
I have seen some differing opinions about how much work will be needed to redesign it for a replacement engine.
@Mool @TheNovemberMan @MNSpy Also: if the license runs out I guess that means they aren’t allowed to build more motors/parts. I doubt it means they _can’t_ build them.
@TheNovemberMan @MNSpy when contracts are signed they'll get their money anyway. A better approach would be reverse engineering US tech do one can control it eventually. This could be s trans European effort. Results could be shared with European manufacturers like Gripen, Rafale and Eurofighter...
@MNSpy exactly the same situation exists with Trident. The UK thinks it has trident nuclear missiles but they cannot be fired without consent from the USA so for all practical purposes they don’t exist.
@peterbrown @MNSpy This is a myth. UK Trident is operationally independent. Ofc though it depends on the US for parts. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-america-doesnt-control-britains-nuclear-weapons/
@vashti @peterbrown @MNSpy The software is not open source and readable. We have no idea if it has a range of target coordinates that it will not accept, and if these are updated according to US Foreign Policy. (Their own territory, for instance). They’d have been pretty daft to design it without that - and they are not pretty daft.
@Jeffrey @peterbrown However, that wasn't the question.
@vashti @peterbrown I didn’t spot a question. Did you? Tell me what I’ve missed.
I saw a post by a European concerned at the usability of a defence system that had been purchased from the US.
I’m also a European concerned at the usability of a defence system that has been purchased from the US.
@MNSpy For the record, he is also extremely right-wing & racist; Danes would not have been at all surprised if he had remained loyal to the GOP & apologetic of Trump - to many people, myself included, it's surreal to be on the same side with this guy, but at least MAGA crazy is too crazy even for our crazies...
@MNSpy Any possible gains in American jobs because of tariffs will be offset by reduced export of F35 planes.
@MNSpy He is completely right, and should stop using Twitter as well, for similar reasons.
@MNSpy I dunno. Everyone seems to be taking a snapshot view of the ugly developments in the USA. I really believe they will wake up from their nightmare and pursue a more rational path in a few years time.
Regimes can change and become memories, albeit unpleasant ones.
@MNSpy I replied to someone else's post of this, and it's not so much a "kill switch" as total control of the aircraft's datalink systems
@_radioactiveresponder @MNSpy I suppose the only saving grace is NGAD is basically dead after the joke of an "F-47" fighter was unveiled to somehow replace the program, and no one will buy into it now anyway
@_radioactiveresponder @MNSpy one thing I'll say is that nothing is impossible to reverse engineer, and the US knows this.
Even the threat of turning an F-35 into the equivalent of a MiG-21 scares the shit out of Lockheed-Martin, as they know what countries would do
I'm sure that Denmark has brilliant techs - Now that the US is screwing with them I guess any intellectual property agreements they've made are null and void
That means that there's no reason why they can't reverse engineer planes, software and parts to make their own and sell that technology to anyone who bought weapons from the US
This would hit big industries that depend on IP to keep making their billions & MAYBE some of them might start thinking trump isn't a great idea anymore
@MNSpy
what will you do with the old ones? donating to ukraine? start a war?
@MNSpy Can I boost this twice?
The treason Trump and his administration are committing to their allies and to the history of the USA will not easily be forgotten.
@MNSpy tbh I never understood why any European country would buy inferior usamerican fighter jets when we have saab.
@Codeschubse @MNSpy
We couldn't. Gripen uses F/A 18 engines and the US forbids saab from selling to NATO countries.
Saab really needs to look into Rafale or Eurofighter engines.
The open secret about SAAB exporting planes in general (I don't know about any special rules around NATO) is that any country that was looking at Gripen would get a quiet message on the lines of "it'd be a pity if something happened to our service agreements or maintenance deals around the tanks/artillery/whatever else that you bought from us, wink wink nudge nudge".
@Codeschubse @MNSpy in the case of Germany it was for the ability to carry US nukes which are stationed in Germany.
@MNSpy I wish our Boris Pistorious would be that suspicous/realistic.
@MNSpy @shansterable This is simply rational thinking.
@MNSpy Maybe the best thing for Europe is for the US to leave NATO. I suspect that the US basically pushed NATO on Europe anyway. Now, forward-thinking Americans realize NATO is ready for the ash heap. Ultimately, Europe will not want to sustain such a Frankenstein
@MNSpy Probably part of the reason our country (Canada) is reexamining our deal for F35s. Unfortunately, the Gripen which came in second here has a USA engine. I'd wager SAAB have already started looking for alternatives.
@MNSpy Only Conservatives could have been incompetent, stupid and corrupt enough to have bought those piles of crap.
@MNSpy I generally do NOT agree with Rasmus Jarlov on ANYTHING, but here, for once, he's saying something reasonable.
He is making the wise decision. I just want to say, as an American--THOSE FUCKHEADS DON'T SPEAK FOR ME. Thanks for reading.
@MNSpy He is right.