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  • Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.social
    Aug 3, 2026, 3:42 AM

    On July 8, Trump made the promise that the US would give Ukraine a license to make Patriot missiles (attached clip).

    Obviously it would be very difficult for Trump to make such a promise, since the Patriot missiles are a product and the intellectual property of Lockheed Martin — a company which neither Trump, nor the US military owns.

    And to no surprise, Trump walked back his promise at the Friday cabinet meeting, now saying that military technology was “a hard thing to give away”.

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  • caneToad :linuxmint:dazzr@social.tchncs.de
    Aug 3, 2026, 4:20 AM

    @randahl TACO again. Keep in mind this is Captain Bone Spurs, not Captain Balls.
    And of course Lockheed Martin has American owners and shareholders that need Donnie's protection, and not a giveaway.

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  • Grassroots Joejoeinwynnewood@mstdn.social
    Aug 3, 2026, 4:48 AM

    @randahl

    The Criminal in the White House will never do anything to help Ukraine that might be detrimental to his idol Putin. No one should ever suggest otherwise.

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  • El IndifferenteEl_Indifferente@ruhr.social
    Aug 3, 2026, 5:06 AM

    @randahl this is also no surprise to me as two things are important here. Ukraine needs Patriot Block 3 to counter the missiles and exactly that one the US have never given away.

    I think that the license for Germany's Patriot Assembly plant is also not about Block 3.

    Yes, Lockheed-Martin could say yes to a deal with Ukraine but as correctly stated this is something #felon47 will not allow.

    Ukraine and the rest of Europe have a better chance inventing something homegtown.

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  • Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.social
    Aug 3, 2026, 8:52 AM

    @El_Indifferente I fully agree. The problem is the long time frame in doing so. But the sooner we push to develop our own ballistic missile counter weapon, the more lives we save.

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  • El IndifferenteEl_Indifferente@ruhr.social
    Aug 3, 2026, 9:26 AM

    @randahl as bad as it is buz Worldwar 2 starres with biplanes and ended with missiles and jets.

    What Ukraine is actually achieving with their unmanned system would have been seen as a wet dreams of the defence industry globally.

    Together with some string partners, they can make it. Maybe not as good as Patriot, which took decades to implementiert but maybe good enough.

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  • Dave Robinsondave@europhiles.uk
    Aug 3, 2026, 7:54 AM

    @randahl
    What comes out of his mouth is just a stream of consciousness, or rather, semi-consciousness. Unfiltered, unintelligible and unfathomable.

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  • JimCaymanPilot@mastodon.social
    Aug 3, 2026, 3:53 PM

    @randahl
    Whoa, does Netanyahu know about this? The only way Ukraine would be licensed is if Ukraine builds the missiles for Israel

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