Historians may deem this USAF period as the Cognitive Dissonance Era, requiring planners and explainers to decree two arguments that cannot possibly both be true, to be critical policy and the best plan forward.
China owns the F22 data, may have shared plans from spies.
But they still can’t defeat it with their production bureaucracy. If they can, let’s spend a trillion on the next two Generations of FTRs, instead of Climate Insanity and EV manufacturing suicide.
We really can’t say that because we haven’t engaged in combat with the Chinese fighter.
On the other point China basically owns our government as long as the Bidens are in office and probably after because they have so many of the leaders. In congress in their pocket.
Our future depends on whether the two great Empires, China and the US, both of which are teetering on the edge of economic collapse, falls off the edge first.
Most likely they will go together since both hold huge amounts of the other’s debt.
Some economic genius will please tell me how that is possible.