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Biden admin reverses Trump's decision, approves USD 450 mn F-16 fleet sustainment programme to Pakistan
TimesNow ^ | 8 Sept 2022

Posted on 09/11/2022 5:02:29 PM PDT by anthropocene_x

Reversing the decision of its predecessor, the Biden Administration has approved a whooping USD 450 million F-16 fighter jet fleet sustainment programme to Pakistan. As a notification to the US Congress, the State Department has made a determination approving a possible foreign military sale of F-16 case for sustainment and related equipment for an estimated cost of USD 450 million, arguing that this will sustain Islamabad's capability to meet current and future counterterrorism threats by maintaining its F-16 fleet. This is the first major security assistance to Pakistan after Trump in 2018 had announced to stop all defense and security assistance to Pakistan alleging that Islamabad was not a partner in its fight against terrorism.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; baluchistan; biden; f16; india; isis; kashmir; pakistan; syria; waronterror
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Yes, that Pakistan. The same country who hid Osama Bin Laden in a safehouse 1 mile away from their military intelligence headquarters while taking billions of dollars of US money to help in the "war on terror".
1 posted on 09/11/2022 5:02:29 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
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To: anthropocene_x

Jo Jo gave a fleet of Sikorsky Blackhawks to the Taliban and so far, they only thing they can figure out what to do with them is roll them down hills on their enemy.


2 posted on 09/11/2022 5:05:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: anthropocene_x

Biden administration has only one policy - whatever Trump did we’re against it.

No more than alot of vindictive ‘mean chicks’


3 posted on 09/11/2022 5:07:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: anthropocene_x

Not only the worst president in American history, but the most dangerous for national security.

You own this, Dems. And we won’t forget it.


4 posted on 09/11/2022 5:08:48 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: anthropocene_x

It will not move Pakistan closer to the U.S. or away from its historic alliance with China. Pakistan has been playing this geoplotical bribery - arm us or we move closer to China - since Nixon. It’s a geopolitical scam.


5 posted on 09/11/2022 5:09:33 PM PDT by Wuli (uires )
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To: skeeter

per order of Obama


6 posted on 09/11/2022 5:09:46 PM PDT by main st.
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To: anthropocene_x

Pakistan is a terrorist nation.


7 posted on 09/11/2022 5:19:11 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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Ragheads were handed another victory by our stinking communist rulers...

No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

8 posted on 09/11/2022 5:19:21 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: anthropocene_x

The Pakistan that will sort of do what the CIA pays them to do unlike India which just does its own thing and doesn’t think it needs to align itself lockstep with us [no wonder the Raj was in a state of angst the whole history of the Empire].


9 posted on 09/11/2022 5:30:14 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: anthropocene_x

“approving a possible foreign military sale”

It’s not a “sale” when the terrorist state of Pakistan borrows the money from us to pay for the equipment, and then we forgive the loan.


10 posted on 09/11/2022 5:33:46 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: ought-six

I’ll have to politely disagree. Whatever the Dems are doing was not a secret.

Who owns this?

81,000,000 voters own this. /sarc….but I’d say at least 50m actual humans

Georgias Governor, SecState, AG, state Congressional leadership

Governors, SecStates, AGs and various judges in Arizona, Penn, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada

They’re the ones that put this scourge on us and seemed happy to do it.


11 posted on 09/11/2022 5:35:19 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: anthropocene_x

Exact same thing I was thinking.

That’s why the entire Afghanistan operation failed (so I’ve read—wasnt there). The Extremist Islamist leaders just moved across the border to Pak. The Pakis knew where they were.

We should have went after them anyway, regardless to what Pakistan thought about it.


12 posted on 09/11/2022 5:35:45 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: anthropocene_x

Pakistan is friends with China. Remember for future reference.


13 posted on 09/11/2022 5:41:28 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: FlingWingFlyer
:::::Jo Jo gave a fleet of Sikorsky Blackhawks to the Taliban and so far, they only thing they can figure out what to do with them is roll them down hills on their enemy.:::::

I thought the very first use of our "donated" Blackhawks was to hover long enough to hang a few people....

14 posted on 09/11/2022 5:43:24 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: anthropocene_x

Having worked on a military sales contract, the only redeeming thing about this is, they don’t get top of the line equipment. They get the most basic model that can fly. Frame, shell engine.

However the reality is, this is nothing but corporate welfare for Lockheed Martin.

One thing that has to be looked at is, who and how are the Pakistanis paying.

Iraq purchased about 30 F16s in a deal brokered by Soetero. They were supposed to use their oil money to reimburse the US government. I’m it sure they’ve ever paid. So we’re paying for Lockheed and Sallyport to provide services to the Iraqi government to turn tune of 100s of millions a year.

President Trump questioned this.


15 posted on 09/11/2022 5:46:43 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Did the military put the same stuff in the engines that Obama used for "cash for clunkers"?


16 posted on 09/11/2022 5:48:08 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: qaz123

You’re talking about the election, and I agree with you on that. But I was talking about this administration, subsequent to the election, and the Dems in Congress.


17 posted on 09/11/2022 5:58:57 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: SuperLuminal

Ragheads were handed another victory by our stinking communist rulers.


On 9/11 no less. They’re just rubbing our noses in it now.


18 posted on 09/11/2022 5:59:41 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: ought-six

Not arguing that, but anyone with an IQ of 40 knew that Biden, et al we’re going to be a disaster. What I don’t know is, did anyone think it would be this bad?

Knowing r not knowing anything about the son and his laptop doesn’t matter.

If it weren’t for the folks i mentioned, and forgot to mention the Republican prostitutes in Congress, so many things that have happened would not have happened.


19 posted on 09/11/2022 6:11:15 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: anthropocene_x

REAL TREASON!

as usual democrats arm our enemies or give them money. I remember Obama giving a plane full of cash to Iran and Bill Clinton giving our missile technology to China (I think it was)


20 posted on 09/11/2022 6:20:39 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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