NO DEAL !
Fine...
NO DEAL !
OK. We have no choice but to buy French then. Kiss goodbye to that billion dollar contract for your defence industry, hand out the redundancy notes to the defence workers, and shoulder more of the burden for the next war. We won't be able to help you as much. We'll be flying Froggie crap rather than good planes.
It's the Liberal way. Were the superpower, we deserve nothing!
First the U.S. screws Iceland by reniging on their defense pact after Iceland has been a firm ally in the WOT and in Iraq. Now the U.S. is going to screw Britain over the JSF. Does the U.S. even care if it has allies? Britain has been intrumental, not only in Iraq, but also in the WOT with help that has been critical to the U.S. On one hand, the U.S. wants and needs support from her allies, and then wonders why they face opposition on the international stage. It is stories like this that justify international anti-Americanism. The U.S. is earning it. And as Vanders9 has poonted out, it will mean fewer sales to defense contractors, which is a financial hit to the U.S. and an ally that is weaker and will require stronger U.S. help if they ever need it.
Of course there was going to be a deal. Think Trident and the special relationship that has allows the US to base rights at Menwith Hill. The deal has been struck.