IIRC, Japan is looking for some more of those.
French warships. How come those two words just don’t seem to go together? Let me try a few others. Obama patriotic. Democrat intelligence. Chicago safe. Nope, they just don’t go together.
What is NATO... I have a feeling it’s the US taxpayers
Russia's greatest threat is not it's military prowess.
Russian economic strength comes from energy exports.
Russia selectively uses these exports to leverage other nations.
These American politicians won't tangle with Exxon because Exxon and other energy companies will cut off their campaign money.
“NATO” doesn’t have any money. If France wants to cancel this deal, they can feel free. The fact that they won’t, tell you all you need to know about why there is not and will not be a robust European response to Russia’s theft of territory. They can say what they want about Russian behavior, but at the end of the day they’ll take their rubles, just like they took Saddam’s oil prior to the second Iraq war.