Congress does have the final say on what gets bought after the R&D is completed - and they’ve been steering that the wrong way for most of the past two decades. Again - if you were correct, where are our flotillas of current frigates? Where’s the thousands of F-22s? Where’s the ammo for the DD-1000’s main gun?
We have the strongest military by a pretty long way and I never saw or read where we were supposed to have “thousands of F22” And btw they are an almost equal footing as the F35.
Anyway, you can but I’m not loosing sleep over what you perceive to be our military weaknesses.
I’ll pretty much accept this: