Its like the old Soviet Aeroflot days! Don’t people take care of planes anymore? Does this include the USAF too? We better not get into a shooting war with a real nation with an air force or we are in deep Do do, as a former president once said.
The analogy has merit ... The difference between USA now and USSR then is the aircraft themselves.
The Big Media are currently waving in our face apparent maintenance failures on fundamentally high-quality aircraft. I suspect them of being less than honest, though.
Back in the USSR, it was crap maintenance on crap aircraft and everybody knew it. Aeroflot very quickly ditched all its Soviet Ilyushins and Tupolevs for Boeing and Airbus products after the USSR collapsed.
“Its like the old Soviet Aeroflot days!”
I actually flew Aeroflot between Moscow and Saint Petersburg back in the day (’73) and that was one scary flight with the jet rattling so much I thought it was coming apart. But at least they served me alcoholic beverages even though I was only 15 at the time. I needed the booze to calm my nerves.